Ive been involved in I dont know how many training modules, ranging from the overly long to the shorter chunked variety. Remember, all I do is online, self-paced eLearning). What have you been doing in the software training world of late? Cammy, thanks for doing this! Help learners see the model, show some examples of how the model explains the steps, then have them perform some tasks by predicting, from the model, how to do things. watching someone else do their daily tasks using the software) gets to that model point you make. 04 PM Cammy Bean said. MORE >>

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Describing What You Do: Instructional Design Youre at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? Thats a great description, but it still doesnt help me tell the woman on the playground what it is that I do. How do you explain yourself? How do you tell someone whos not in the field what you do? I do stuff on the computer" 8:07 AM Lynn Ireland said. MORE >>

How do you create learning experiences that meet the audience where they are? The days of all knowing instructional designer that drives a process of extracting and interpreting information from the SME seems way too mediated. This means knowing the demographics of the audience, and then creating something close to a story for the course that will appeal and engage. Your users will tell you what they want, what’s working, and where the gaps are.  It’s a new world out there for the Instructional Designer. And learning is not a one-way push anymore. think not.  MORE >>

Goal setting —people need to know what is expected of them. agree and yet many people do not even consider it. We as learning professionals know better than to make assumptions. All you have to do is randomly ask a couple of learners. Reinforcement and feedback —As we all know, learning is a process, not an event. have heard clients tell me that while the training program their employees went through was great, they ended up going back to their day-to-day and doing the same thing they did before. by Reni Gorman. Sounds simple? Too simple? MORE >>

Help organizations to bridge the gap between research on learning and reality.) Instructional Objectives for Learner: Table of contents objectives (these are the things were going to teach you) Performance Objectives (this is what youll do.) Des Objectives (what we want learners to learn, behaviors for them to do) Evaluation Objective (these are the things were going to measure) Situation (these are the list of situations) Organizational Objectives (the benefits that will come to the organization) Dont want one objective to fulfill all purposes. They do. Thanks! MORE >>