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TAMING INFORMATION OVERLOAD BEFORE IT DEVOURS

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Information overload, combined with powerful expressionistic tools suggest developers can all too easily be blown off course even when their instructional targets, objectives and KPIs are solid, and more importantly clear. Instead of building in standard ISD form, with outlines, chapters, sections, modules and such, work the opposite way.

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Overcoming Generation Differences When Building Learning: Part 2

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When we last visited this topic about a week back I promised to create a visual—a chart of sorts—to encourage learning and instructional designers to consider how generational bias in training delivery. Ultimately, the learning designer has to make everyone happy if information transfer is to take place. A Quick Review.

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SCENARIOS ARE MINI DRAMAS…NOT A GLORIFIED Q & A.

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Too often, I visit learning that is frankly weak even if it has all the requisite objectives, structure, and guiding scaffold, e.g. ADDIE by example. If this indicative of a general lack of imagination on the part of learning designers, ID’s or constraints place by clients it matters not.

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Learning Design: The Great, The Good and The Good Enough

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However, there is no real lobbying group or organized industry to support the learning designer model. Change Commentary/Response Consulting ELearning Instruction Instructional Design Learning Development Management Social Media instructional design learning learning design & development'

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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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They’ve be clearly invented by instructional designers/educators in lust with technology. Mass market availability permits any instructional designer with knowledge of the tools to design for a series of learning based checks. Gamification is not Games. I have a wonderful cliff near my house they can be lobbed off.

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5.1 Reasons How and Why to Build Learning with Social Media

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Using social media (SM) to prepare material for instructional design, courseware and webinars and such is the flip side of the same coin that encourages social media as intake media. We read a lot about using SM to learn, but how about to build? Here are 5.1 reasons to build learning via SM. A Social Collective.

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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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And in my many years building learning, whether facilitated instruction or elearning it’s a cardinal rule that instructional designers need to know many aspects of their target learner’s personality traits. It can’t be a secret that stereotypes are often well proven by personal experience.