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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Similar post in this blog: In Response: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09--Part I 5. Comments on other blog(s) regarding qualities of an ID: Perfect Behaviour 6. Role: Instructional Designer: Exp: 5-9 yrs Qualification: Any Graduate Job Profile: 1.The Blog posts have waxed eloquent about the roles and functions of an ID.

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5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System

easygenerator

Over the next several months I will post blogs on each of these trends in greater detail. Since there is so much available information for anyone to find what they need, when they need it — through search engines, Wikipedia, Mooc’s or YouTube. This means that we have to review the way we develop eLearning materials. Conclusion.

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In Defense of the Term “Gamification” as used by Learning Professionals

Kapp Notes

Recently, on one of my blog postings Design e-Learning Like a Game Developer: Provide Incentives for Good Work , I received a response related to the fact that “gamification” is the easy-way-out and that we need to be careful about extrinsic motivation, that I was not correct in my posting about the use of extrinsic motivation.

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2009 Review

Experiencing eLearning

In June, I found out that my job situation was not especially secure. In December, I started a new job. It’s been a somewhat slow start, as I had no computer for the first two weeks, but hopefully I’ll have some more to write about soon. instructional design jobs. No more renting! Why a Wiki? But not bad.

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Reinventing Organizations: From Command-And-Control to Holacracy

The Performance Improvement Blog

Gianpiero Petriglieri , Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD echoes my concern in a HBR blog post titled Making Sense of Zappo’s War on Managers. He writes : Under the guise of freeing people up, self-management is often an effort to free the organization up first and foremost. I am rooting for Zappos.

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Any tool can do, culture matters

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I'm writing blogging tips for a book we're writing and one of the tips is to create a rhythm of posting. I had a good blogging rhythm but now I seem to loose it! But let's try to stick to a weekly rhythm and blogging about a past experience still lingering in my head. So I need tips how to keep your rhythm.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

On-campus college courses – attending for-credit courses or non-credit courses that are relevant to one’s job. Internship – working in a temporary position for the purpose of learning about a job, the work environment of that job, and the organizational culture. External online courses (e.g.,