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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN BASICS – GOALS

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“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going”. - Earl Nightingale This is true not just at work and in life, but also in instructional design. Okay, sugary quote aside, goals are really, really important in our work in L&D. Goals can be thought of as having two parts: The first part, at the macro level, should answer the WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) for the business.

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Learner Engagement – Ideas For Improving Emotional Engagement In Your Courses

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In a previous article , I talked about the different types of learner engagement that there are, and what each one entails. In this one, I discuss ideas to bring about and enhance emotional engagement. The first step in bringing about emotional engagement is to start with a strong WIIFM (What’s In It For Me). I previously wrote in detail about generating killer WIIFMs that will make learners want to take your course.

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LEARNER ENGAGEMENT – IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK

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I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of learner engagement. And rightly so. If you do anything remotely connected with instructional design, you would be too. Because it’s engagement that opens up the gates to learner involvement in the course. It gets them committed to the outcomes, and then makes them work hard towards ‘getting there’. But unfortunately today, the term learner engagement gets bandied about meaninglessly.

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L&D SHOULD THINK LIKE MARKETING – BUT DO WE UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE?

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There’s been a growing chorus that L&D should think more like marketing, and that we should borrow principles and approaches from there. This is not surprising. The similarities are all too obvious: L&D and marketing are both trying to change behavior. But beyond this basic realization, we’d do well to understand the fundamental parallels and differences between the two: Marketing is all about persuasion + education.

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LEARNING CAMPAIGNS – FACILITATING SKILL BUILDING AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE

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Many of us have grown up hearing about marketing campaigns, advertising campaigns and political campaigns, but learning campaigns are a relatively new kid on the block. The idea has picked up pace recently, so much so that almost everyone talks about it. Specifically, there’s a lot of talk about L&D having to ‘think like a marketer’ and using ‘marketing campaigns for learning’.

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ACCESSIBILITY IS FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED

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Not long ago, the touchpad on my laptop stopped working. Actually, it was technically working, but became a pain to use. I would slide left on the touchpad with my index, and the cursor on the screen would confidently move right. I’d try to scroll down using two fingers, and the screen would stubbornly stay in place. Editing and cropping images was out of the question.

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PERSONA STORIES – THE KEY TO MAKING LEARNER PERSONAS WORK FOR YOU

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I’ve written previously (quite a bit, in fact!) about learner personas, and how to make them work for you. You are already aware that we create personas so we can understand our audience better. With personas, we’re also able to empathize with their character, their ambitions and their struggles, so we can create targeted solutions to help address them.

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