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Comparing Technical Writing and Instructional Design: Which Brings More Value to Your Organization?

IT Training Department Blog

On the other hand, instructional design leverages learning theory and experience to develop training materials and solutions to address particular needs in the workplace. Instructional designers are experts in learning theory, sometimes for children and sometimes adult learning in both higher education and the workplace.

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Skills aren’t soft or hard — they’re durable or perishable

CLO Magazine

In the learning and talent development field, these would include the ADDIE process used for designing and developing learning content, or the various learning theories that may have currency today, but are likely to change as learning science advances and businesses pivot their strategy and approach.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points - Learning Visions , August 11, 2009. ADDIE is dead! Long live ADDIE! When it’s just so obvious NOT to train it’s painful to watch it happen - Performance Learning Productivity , June 12, 2009. Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

The crisply written Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice covers all the fundamentals. From traditional learning theories and motivation learning to how the digital age has changed adult learning. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey.

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Back To Basics: Instructional Design Terminology

Obsidian Learning

ADDIE: A conceptual and iterative application model for instructional systems design; the components include: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Analysis: First phase of ADDIE. Distance Learning and Distance Education: Education that occurs when students and instructors not in the same location.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

LearnUpon

Examples of active learning activities include practical tasks and problem-solving conducted in small groups. ADDIE (Analysis Design Development Implementation). The ADDIE model is an acronym: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning). Agile Learning.

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Free L&D webinars for April 2018

Limestone Learning

While everyone agrees that L&D in companies is a good thing, learners and L&D leaders don’t always see eye to eye on the details—preventing both sides from maximizing the ROI of corporate learning. What employees and employers agree is the biggest challenge when it comes to corporate learning tools and solutions.

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