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Professional Organizations for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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Teacher to Instructional Designer Interview Questions

Experiencing eLearning

I received a question from a classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview and what instructional designer interview questions to expect. How would your skills transfer from teaching to instructional design?

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Blended Learning as a powerful strategy for corporate training success

Infopro Learning

Recent studies have found that the amount of people who work remotely at least once a week has grown by an astounding 400% since 2010 (1). Blended learning is the best instructional design for modern learners. However, Quickly developing elearning programs that are both engaging and effective has proven to be quite a challenge.

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Embracing A Principle-Based Model of Instructional Design

eLearning Brothers

Even expert instructional designers will agree that they don’t follow such linear models in their daily processes. Instead, they draw from the strategies (or underlying principles) that they know will best serve the purpose and intentions of their designs. Principle-Based Model of Instructional Design.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.

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Looking Back on 2010 with ADDIE

Integrated Learnings

Though a variety of models guide our instructional design work, I’d argue that ADDIE functions as the basic backbone of the process. Just about every model, trend, and best practice in the field supports one of the phases of ADDIE. D = Design (design the solution, create a blueprint). By Shelley A.

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Instructional Design Experience Before Your First Job

Experiencing eLearning

One of the recurring questions I hear from those trying to start their instructional design careers is “How do you get experience in the field so you can get your first ID job?&#. If you’re someone looking to transition from another field into instructional design, what do you create for your portfolio to prove your skills?