Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

The instructor pointed out that training practitioners tend to design instruction that caters to their own dominant learning styles. Avoid the pitfall of designing to your own preferences - make sure you've incorporated instructional methods that appeal to a wide variety of learning styles. eLearning lesson), social media, humor.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2011

We know that Robert Gagne’s nine events of instruction is a helpful guide for designing engaging eLearning. Though most articles list these as the first and third events, respectfully, I frequently combine them at or toward the beginning of an eLearning lesson. By Shelley A. But are you applying the model to design active training?

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

from eLearning lessons. I’m in the midst of reading e-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer (it’s really a must-read for anyone who designs instruction). While completing the lesson, subjects were asked questions and prompted to type out responses. As technology. The research….

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 14, 2013

that permeates an entire course or lesson. Imagine starting a lesson with an actual story of a customer service representative – let’s call her Janie – who received a rave review from a customer who provided feedback on a particular interaction. In this project, we created a series of eLearning lessons, with a short lesson (i.e.,

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Though a variety of models guide our instructional design work, I’d argue that ADDIE functions as the basic backbone of the process. Anatomy of an eLearning Lesson: Nine Events of Instruction and Anatomy of an eLearning Lesson: Merrill’s First Principles each describe models that guide eLearning lesson design from start to finish.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 31, 2010

The redesigned version assigned an eLearning lesson as pre-work to introduce the elements of a presentation. Learners were also instructed to outline a presentation, accounting for each of the elements they learned about in the eLearning lesson. A good lesson learned for me regarding learner analysis. -2-

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If you’re familiar with Gagne’s nine events of instruction , you know that one of the early steps in the instructional design model involves stimulating recall of learners’ prior knowledge. Why stimulate prior knowledge toward the beginning of an eLearning lesson? 1-- Ask learners to describe a related personal experience.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 5, 2011

Sometimes, learners feel this way during an eLearning lesson. What causes learners to lose their way in lessons? What can instructional designers do to help keep learners going in the right direction? Variance in navigation Most simple lessons are fairly straight-forward with how the navigation works.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 15, 2013

So how can we leverage this natural way of learning in eLearning lessons? I recently saw this in an eLearning lesson a colleague created. The lesson prompted learners to answer a scenario-based. Instructional Design Discovery Learning eLearning Blog System Training Best Practices Informal Learning Workplace Learning eLearning'

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

or to use a different approach, consider taking the actions below to produce a reasonably effective eLearning lesson relatively quickly. After all, as instructional designers, this distinction tends to be on our minds more than it is for others. Even if you can’t influence “the powers that be” to allow more time for a proper analysis.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 27, 2012

These guys are good instructional designers. That said, I realize that the point of these books is to instruct. Am I doing those things right when I design an eLearning lesson? As I started to sputter out a few tunes on my new harmonica, I made it a point to notice the instructional tactics that were most helpful for me.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I’ve seen many eLearning lessons end with reiterating a lesson’s objectives. Instead, we can end eLearning lessons in ways that prompt learners to recall important information or have a meaningful moment of insight. What do you typically put on the final slide of an eLearning lesson? Why does recency matter for eLearning?

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 1, 2011

Initially, I read it thinking about how I can be more innovative as an instructional designer. Complex (and relevant) scenarios in a problem-based eLearning lesson may accomplish this. This reminds me of two of Gagne’s instructional events : stimulate recall and present new content. What else translates into design advice?

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Integrated Learnings

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The storytelling quality of scenarios helps make the lessons learned in training memorable. Before meeting with the client, I created a storyboard of the eLearning lesson to lay out the intended structure of the scenario. Working independently on scenarios may work if the instructional designer is also a SME. By Shelley A.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 4, 2011

We designers work in the world of business needs as well as learner instructional needs. For example: Suppose the specifications state that you must incorporate the company’s visual branding standards into a lesson? What if the specifications state that you must ensure that company’s core values are represented within a lesson?

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 6, 2010

One of the things I love about instructional design is that it engages me both analytically and creatively. We included her stories to demonstrate key skills, and we used her stories as the foundation for a few problem-centered lessons. By Shelley A. It worked like a charm. What makes a good story? We hope you found this post helpful.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Instructional designers know to follow an activity with discussion questions that prompt learners to reflect on what they learned, justify why they made certain decisions during the activity, consider alternatives, and relate it all to their jobs. By Shelley A. Should debriefing occur in eLearning? How do you design debriefs in eLearning?

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Interestingly, in the past two years, I’ve known two instructional designers, in two different organizations, who were a part of teams that were tasked with answering this question for their companies. Regardless, this is an area where instructional design principles can guide us. So what does this mean for eLearning?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 2, 2013

The posts from this blog in 2012 offered advice for trying out new eLearning authoring tools and other technologies as well as advice for trying out various instructional approaches. Want to renew your focus on instructional design? Instructional design is at the heart of learning. For many, this includes trying new things.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 18, 2012

Multiple choice questions – whether used throughout an eLearning lesson or in a knowledge assessment – are often frowned upon as unrealistic and limiting. Poorly designed eLearning lessons that are text-dominated, page-turners tend to be unpopular. But when written well, multiple choice questions can be quite robust.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Do you include audio narration in the eLearning lessons you develop? I was working on a project several weeks ago where the team debated whether to include audio narration in a series of eLearning lessons. Tags: Instructional Design Audio Learning Style eLearning. By Shelley A. Or why not? And what about those tactile learners?

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 4, 2011

Think about it – fairy tales often convey a lesson without explicitly stating what the lesson was. So, back to our original question: How can we convey tacit knowledge in eLearning? Storytelling is an excellent approach to tacit knowledge.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I was part of a team last year that worked on a large eLearning course, which consisted of several hours of eLearning lessons that learners completed over a four-week period. Interestingly, we received feedback that learners were taking excessive notes.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 30, 2012

Regardless of which instructional design model is your favorite – Gagne’s nine events of instruction , Merrill’s first principles , or something else – stimulating recall is likely an important component of it. Many interpret this recall step as a review from a previous lesson, reading, or training session. Emmott, C., &

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 11, 2010

Sometimes even before taking a swimming lesson…or changing into a proper bathing suit. Employ sound instructional design principles. I’ve seen talented instructional designers convert ILT into eLearning as though they’re doing a straight, simple conversion. The result? and Pointing to the Five Moments of Learning Need.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 22, 2010

About a year ago, I posted instructions on using Captivate’s system variables to turn the Captivate skin on and off within your course. Many designers include assessments within their Captivate lessons. Now, here is how I used these actions within the Captivate lesson itself. By Susan O'Connell. The literal value will be “1.”.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 2, 2011

Gagne’s sixth event (of his Nine Events of Instruction ) is eliciting performance/practice. When learners can play with new knowledge using guided practice within a lesson, they can safely confirm that they’ve “got it.” How can you build imaginative practice into your eLearning lessons?

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2011

If the purpose of the lesson was to teach a process, present a simple diagram that summarizes the main steps. If the lesson includes scenarios, pick a scenario to convert into a story to retell at the end, in a way that reminds learners how they applied the content. What techniques can we use to reinforce key content at the end?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 12, 2011

If you had to offer business justification for each slide and activity in your eLearning lesson to your client, could you consistently make a compelling case? And if you felt a little bored reading that last paragraph, we can probably assume that learners feel similarly when completing that type of eLearning lesson.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 6, 2010

This accountability applies to the instructional designer, the learners, the managers.and well, just about everyone involved in the project. This example is taken from a segment of an e-learning lesson about handling customer complaints. Tags: Instructional Design Evaluation Objectives. Consider the comparison below.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 3, 2011

Most eLearning lessons contain knowledge checks of some sort, such as scenarios followed by a multiple choice question, hotspot questions that prompt learners to recognize something in an image , and simulations in which learners work through a procedure. In many eLearning lessons, a box appears that says something like, “Incorrect.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2010

For example, a customer service lesson might start by challenging learners to answer a customer question that they'll learn more about during the lesson. Tags: Instructional Design Recency Primacy eLearning Objectives Cognitive Theory. If you happen to have a specific example you've employed, please share!

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 3, 2010

The book is described as containing great lessons for marketers who want to devise the perfect jingle or ad pitch. Tags: Instructional Design Scenario-Based Learning Storytelling eLearning. I’ve been impressed with how much learning theory is woven throughout on why certain ideas stick in a person’s head while others don’t.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Or perhaps you’re trying to apply a problem-centered design to a lesson that’s currently a bullet point-driven lecture. Though I like to generate ideas independently when I first begin a new project, some of my best lesson designs were inspired by conversations where my peers allowed me to pick their brains for a while.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In order for the lessons learned from training to transfer to the job, they must be reinforced by the learners' managers. Tags: Instructional Design Constructivism Collaborative Learning Social Media Social Learning eLearning. This medium can be used in a way similar to the discussion forum described above.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 8, 2009

That combined with my experience in academic technology and instructional design make me feel well qualified to be in the e-learning business. A lesson I thought was particularly interesting from this video is that a 2009 US Department of Education study reveals that students studying online often outperform their face-to-face peers.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 17, 2012

If all the details of a process flow (or something similar) are already written out in a job aid, why repeat all of that content in an eLearning lesson? It avoids duplicating content. After all, if something changes, duplicate content means more material to update. It potentially shortens training time.

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