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Curated Insights: What does an instructional designer do?

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YOU: “I’m an instructional designer.”. Instructional designer” (ID), however, needs an explanation. My Curated Insights post for October explores the world of instructional design, both where it is today and where it may go in the near future given real-world application and influence from other disciplines. YOU: “Well …”.

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Can your employees go beyond the checklist?

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Equipment repair instructions. Checklists are great! Everyone can benefit from a good checklist. Store opening tasks. Emergency evacuation procedures. Step-by-step guidance is a great way to make sure routine tasks get done and known risks are mitigated. That said, people don’t become great by just following the checklist.

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You need to change the way you view training if you want to measure the impact of learning

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This past week Carol lead a webinar hosted by Training Industry on “How to Measure the Impact of Learning” and, once again, she hit it right out of the park. While this method gives executives a lot of content, it doesn’t give them any way to measure the business outcome of all of this training. Even an LMS can only do so much.

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Top Learning Trends for 2017 (according to the experts)

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In 2008 more than 70% of L&D spending went into formal corporate training, today its less than 30%. The first wave of implementations seems to be related to physical activities like inspecting physical equipment or job sites for safety issues and the second wave will be the actual instruction on how to perform certain tasks.

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You need to change the way you view training if you want to measure the impact of learning

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This past week Carol lead a webinar hosted by Training Industry on “How to Measure the Impact of Learning” and, once again, she hit it right out of the park. While this method gives executives a lot of content, it doesn’t give them any way to measure the business outcome of all of this training. Even an LMS can only do so much.

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Curated Insights: Writing Good Questions

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Regrettably, questions are often relegated to post-training tests that are hastily developed at the last minute. I often share this tongue-in-cheek quiz with instructional design teams to help make my point about poorly-written questions. Instructional designers all have a perspective on what makes for a good question.

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7 Top Learning Trends for 2016

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With respect to eLearning, big data is everything that’s gathered when a learner takes an eLearning course or training module. More profound than just watching a video, we expect businesses to use videos for all kinds of instructional uses: onboarding new hires, supporting product launches, improving customer support and more.

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