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Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs

Experiencing eLearning

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Instructional Designers. E-learning.

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20+ More Books for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

In response to my list of 12+ Books for Instructional Designers , I received a lot of great suggestions for further reading. Instructional Design and Learning Design. Marina Arshavskiy’s Instructional Design for ELearning was recommended by another student, Alisa, who says “I will definitely keep using it after I graduate.”

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Is Instructional Design the Right Career?

Experiencing eLearning

This is the last installment of my series on instructional design careers. Previously, I’ve talked about the skills instructional designers need and how to get into the field of ID. In this post, I talk about determining if instructional design is a good “fit” as a career. Learning science make us more effective.

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4 Best Practices for Keeping an Organized eLearning Video Library

ej4 eLearning

Videos must be created with sound instructional design to ensure that they’re “just right” for employees and will last for many years. “Instructional Design is defined as a systematic process that is employed to develop education and training programs in a consistent and reliable fashion” (Reiser, Dempsey, 2007).

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How to Use Pedagogical Agents in Your eLearning

Infopro Learning

Which sample do you find more effective? Because it is in harmony with the personalization principle—it uses a conversational style, has an effective on-screen coach, and a visible author. Let’s look at the significance of the second aspect of the personalization principle—using effective on-screen coaches or pedagogical agents.

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The Ceiling Effect: How the Height of Your Ceiling Affects Brain Performance

Learningtogo

I’ve written previously about the influence of other disciplines on the science of learning, such as looking at desire paths , an architectural concept, to help design effective informal learning experiences. The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use. Applying the Ceiling Effect to Learning.

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PowerPoint 2007: Adding Voiceover Narration to Presentations Converted to Movies

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Last week I detailed how to turn a PowerPoint 2007 presentation into a movie that could be uploaded to popular video sharing sites like YouTube.  Follow the instructions from last week to create a movie from your PowerPoint presentation with audio and save your movie as a.wmv file. by AJ George. Note (And this is important!):

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