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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ROAD TO LEARNING JANUARY 29, 2011  The New Age Instructional Designer Instructional design provides a gamut of principles and models that enable you to train people effectively in a areas of expertise. The role of an instructional designer is essentially driven by a need to find appropriate solutions by applying instructional design strategies and models to transfer information to users who use a particular product or service to perform their jobs. | ROAD TO LEARNING SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 Learning Strategies You Can Use By using a strategy, the instructional designer eliminates the need for a learner to learn just by memorizing information provided in a course. It would be more in the lines of providing a learning solution that works for a certain audience when we consider the tasks they need to learn. One of my favorite topics of all times since I got into the profession. I'd love to share all I have on my mind relating to this topic and from all perspectives I've seen it apply. But the planning activity was a critical and essential step. So what are Learning Strategies? Why does that happen? | | | | | |
| ROAD TO LEARNING MAY 15, 2011 Of Android, Mobile Games and Learning Experiences didn't even have to call my service provider To start off, Twitter and, Facebook were safest bet. I never thought I'll write about learning games and mobile learning until I bought my Android. People have asked me, why Android? My answer has been that I love Android as it is breaking new ground for mobile computing and open technologies. Android is versatile as it is not limited only to mobile phones, but it can be installed on various devices. Just thought of adding this: "When technologies don't restrain you, they enable you to innbovate." am extremely happy. The feeling was amazing. | ROAD TO LEARNING MAY 29, 2010 Evolving the Education System Focus on doing more than rote-learning Provide students ground to explore possibilities about the subject they are learning about. A few recent events have compelled me to think harder on a previous post of mine about a change proposed in the education system in India from 2011. This post was my first reaction to the decision while also highlighting the realities associated with education on our country. While it is easy to pass a rule, but bringing in a change in the mindset is going to be the hardest. So I am not criticizing a single board but the entire system. | ROAD TO LEARNING JANUARY 29, 2011  The New Age Instructional Designer Instructional design provides a gamut of principles and models that enable you to train people effectively in various areas of expertise. The role of an instructional designer is essentially driven by a need to find appropriate solutions by applying instructional design strategies and models to transfer information to users who use a particular product or service to perform their jobs. | ROAD TO LEARNING MARCH 14, 2008 eLearning in India To provide the requisite technical knowledge for a domain, Domain or Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are to work with an Instructional Designer to create the course structure, content outline and detailed design. Overview eLearning is fast growing in India. elearning is mostly delivered in two modes — Web Based Training (WBT) and Instructor Lead Training (ILT). Computer Based Trainings (CBTs) are used these days only when standalone learning is in demand, like training on your new mobile handset or a latest gadget that you have purchased. Who needs elearning? Whats next? | | | | | | | |
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ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 Role of IDs vs SMEs???
Each kind of SME can provide specific inputs related to their job which can in turn add more value to the courses and curriculum. The only other perspective I see is that if IDs are expected to learn and become product experts and trainers, then they have to choose between being a training solution provider for different training domains, and graduating to be subject matter experts themselves! Let's come to the basic question as to what do we do as instructional designers? For any of these activities a vital component is ' SME support'. This is a tough choice sometimes. MORE >> -
ROAD TO LEARNING | TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009 Pure courseware vs Reference Hybrids
Solution : So we can provide the following information: Give a quick primer on the gadget and its capabilities. Plan a training curriculum which would be a combination of: Formal classroom or full fledged online training supported by relevant interactivities Hands on exercises using scenarios that would be relevant to their role Formal documentation including context sensitive help Now this is serious training and your customer will buy and continue to use your product provided you provide a complete solution package. Another post by Tony - What is Rapid elearning? MORE >> -
ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2009 Analyzing technical information simplified
Curriculum: A curriculum is a set of courses that are logically put together in order to provide a complete training solution for a single product. Familiar with the menus and tools provided by Adobe Photoshop 3. You can start planning the design of your course once you have the requisite information. You can decide what is 'sufficient' based on some of the following points: 1. You have information about your audience profiles. You have the business problem that needs to be solved. You have the product available for research. Adobe Photoshop Basics 2. Here are the next steps. MORE >> -
ROAD TO LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009 Challenges and solutions to technical software product training: Gathering Information
The product teams are so deeply involved in their project schedules that they would never commit to providing us with a single person as a SME! Well who else but multiple persons playing different roles on the product within the organization can provide such information? I worked with a company that created aviation training and my transition to software technical training was met with several challenges. For one thing initially I did NOT understand the products by just reading up ILT and documentation. We started with conversion courses that put me into the comfort zone. MORE >> -
ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2009 Big Question: Workplace Learning in 10 Years?
Relevant— The focus will be to provide to the point and no-nonsense information. This will call for efficient knowledge management systems to organize and index the information, and also provide very efficient search capabilities. This month's Big Question question is Workplace Learning in 10 years? very pertinent question to ask in such times, as we hear of more and more failure rates in formal and push learning. Most of our generation have learned this way, and some like me have always found such learning boring from the very beginning. But I did have some pretty good teachers. MORE >>
- Big Question: OMG I'm Stuck!! ROAD TO LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009
- Long Live ILT? What's the point here? ROAD TO LEARNING | MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009
- Social learning adoption? ROAD TO LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2009
- Collaborative Learning with Trek Earth ROAD TO LEARNING | MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009
- Social Learning? ROAD TO LEARNING | TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2009
- Qualities of an Instructional Designer? ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009
- Social Learning Adoption Success: First Steps? ROAD TO LEARNING | SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2009
- How to make collaborative learning work in organizations? ROAD TO LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
- More about Audience Analysis? ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009
- Learning Strategies You Can Use ROAD TO LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
- Future of Organizational Learning: Some questions ROAD TO LEARNING | SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
- Evolving the Education System ROAD TO LEARNING | SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
- Of Android, Mobile Games and Learning Experiences ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
- Social Learning Adoption Success: First Steps? ROAD TO LEARNING | SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2009
- Qualities of an Instructional Designer? ROAD TO LEARNING | SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009
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