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Teacher to Instructional Designer Interview Questions

Experiencing eLearning

I received a question from a classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview and what instructional designer interview questions to expect. Developing lessons for someone else to teach is good too. Any sage wisdom?

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How Long Should My Online Lessons Be?

LearnDash

If you’re planning your first online lessons, one of the first decisions you will have to make is how long your lessons should be. Some educators are easily able to find a comfortable pace that fits their own teaching style, and that pace may be faster or slower depending on their content. Not every lesson needs topics.

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5 Online Teaching Fundamentals for Online Educators

LearnDash

Even if you’ve taught in the classroom, teaching online presents new challenges. If you’re preparing to teach your first online course, you may be wondering how online teaching differs from the traditional classroom. For some, this will mean doing lessons in the morning or during a lunch break.

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Enhancing Teaching and Learning: The Role of Instructional Plans

Kitaboo

At the heart of effective teaching lies a meticulous and strategic process known as instructional planning. What teaching methods are instrumental in attaining the desired results? How should instructions be strategically devised to meet the goals within a specified timeframe? What is Instructional Planning?

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Blog Roundup: Instructional Design

LearnDash

They have a lot of knowledge in the subject they want to teach—but they haven’t ever actually taught it. The good news, however, is that teaching is a learned skill—one that is backed by a lot of science and research. This is what instructional design is all about. 5 Instructional Design Mistakes to Avoid. Here’s how.

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Top 7 E-Learning Challenges for Instructional Designers

LearnDash

While the hard work is often worth it, going into the task unprepared can cause many new instructional designers feeling disheartened. Here are the top seven challenges instructional designers face when creating a new course. This is what the entire instructional design field is based on, after all. (If

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Getting Into Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

Broadly, there are two different ways to move from another field into an instructional design career: the direct path and the indirect path. This is post #2 in a series about the instructional design. Read the first post, What does an instructional designer do? , This is the fastest and simplest route into instructional design.