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Brave New Frontier for Instructional Designers

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I was watching a Star Trek rerun the other day and I had the realization that, like the Star Trek Enterprise, instructional design is entering a brave new frontier. We know so much more about adult learning and retention now, that the way we learned instructional design no longer works.

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Turning Instructional Design Upside Down

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This weekend was my town’s annual Arts Festival. As I was wandering around the booths, I ran into a woman who had been in my first 9 th grade English class. Fresh out of college, I had a lot of ideas about how learning should work in my classroom. All my students would be brilliant and I would be the best teacher ever.

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Why Trainers and Instructional Designers Need to Care About Performance Support

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Post by: Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design at Kineo Comments/Questions: cammy.bean@kineo.com As an instructional designer of corporate elearning, most of my career has been focused on the design and development of stand-alone elearning courses.

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Podcast: Conrad Gottfredson talks Agile with Rory Francis of Huntington National Bank

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C onrad Gottfredson continues the Agile discussion with Rory Francis, Senior Instructional Designer at Huntington National Bank (13:09).'

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The 8-second attention span; or, I'm fine if goldfish are more patient than millennials

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In the world of L&D, the "8 second" claim has been used to support a conceptual shift in instructional design widely known as "microlearning." We seem to have accepted that smartphones and video games have destroyed human focus.

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Learning and Emotion

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.” Insights from the different fields remain fairly broad, however, and point to questions that need further attention rather than provide specific techniques or theoretical approaches that might be immediately applicable to instructional design.

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