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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Tags: Design Strategies Instructional Design Social Media
 
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Here is some of what I’ve found: Google has an excellent set of instructional materials that teach how to be a good digital citizen. So I’m looking for those adult digital literacy standards, so I can do a bit of analysis and write some instruction. This sounds almost like ADDIE… >:). It won’t scale.
 
Friday, September 3, 2010
Is fun a waste of time in online learning? ID Live this week with co-hosts: Joni Dunlap (University of Colorado, Denver); Robert Squires (University of Montana); Mary Engstrom (University of Montana); Cammy Bean (Kineo) The use of the word fun is dangerous in education – people perceive it’s about entertainment and not learning.
 

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Job descriptions in ID (or, ISD) these days are all over the map, with very little consistency. Instructional Designer Capable of performing or at least managing entire ADDIE process. Primarily responsible for translating raw content into instructional content. Tags: Instructional Design roles
My article Death of the Instructional Designer sparked off some interesting debate and provided some good points. The poll also showed that most readers believe that instructional designers do add value to content development projects. Tom Crawford makes some interesting points in Is Instructional Design Dead.
Without knowing and understanding these basics, we can't claim to be successfully practicing our subject - the subject of instructional design. My list of top 10 resources on Instructional Design - basics and more : 1. An excellent and very comprehensive site that talks all about instructional design and the ISD Process.
I’m at risk of flogging a very dead horse here, but some recent posts from Ellen Wagner (What is it about ADDIE that makes people so cranky?) and Donald Clark ( The evolving dynamics of ISD and Extending ISD through Plug and Play ) got me thinking about instructional design process and ADDIE in particular (please  don’t run away!).
Posts around instructional design topics, especially those related to instructional design around custom eLearning: What Clients Really Want The basis for many of the instructional design decisions. The move of instructional design towards SME and user-generated content. eLearning 1.0, and 2.0
Although she's currently beta testing a new online tool that she has developed for designers called eLearning Blueprints and talks more sense on the subject of instructional design than most people I know, Cathy confessed that she is sometimes denied some work opportunities because she does not have a degree in instructional design.
Tags: Morrison Ross and Kemp Model development cycle course specification corprate development content development ISD ADDIE social learning Kemp Model instructional design
A couple of month back I had shared a list of top 30 online resources for instructional designers to keep up with. Recently I came across this discussion on LinkedIn – best book for beginning instructional designers. e- Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Colvin Clark & Richard E. Mayer.
A reader named Michaela recently emailed to ask what an instructional designer does. There are lots of debates online regarding the value of instructional designers. Sure, instructional designers need to get unstuck, grow and shift things around. What is instructional design? Here’s mine.
Image from Kathy Sierra's old "creating passionate users" blog via Jane Bozarth Lately there has been a lot of discussion over at Cammy Bean's blog Learning Visions about whether or not someone has the "right" to be called an instructional designer or whether or not you even need to know instructional theories to be called an instructional designer.