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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

To gain personal clarity on the role of an ID in a business setting b. ID = Instructional Design b. BA = Business Analyst c. Similar post in this blog: In Response: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09--Part I 5. Role: Instructional Designer: Exp: 5-9 yrs Qualification: Any Graduate Job Profile: 1.The

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AI, DEI, Twine: ID Links 4/23/24

Experiencing eLearning

Freelancing My 25 favorite freelancing tips From the “Double Your Freelancing” newsletter, this is a bunch of tips about how to improve your freelancing business. Some of this is the same advice I have given to others–track your time, spend time working ON your business and not just IN your business, etc.

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Games, Organizing, & Motivation: ID Links 10/25/22

Experiencing eLearning

Standard Operating Procedures: The Foundation of a Freelancing or Consulting Business • Kai Davis. For a one-person business, this documentation doesn’t have to be very fancy–but it does help to document processes to improve your efficiency. Transitioning from education to instructional design.

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Content Expertise for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

In the discussion on the course writer vs. instructional designer and SME models of development, Pdrum left this comment : My job includes being an IT division HR director at a university. He could not moderate user groups to gather data or test the instructional material he was creating. Posted in Instructional Design, SMEs.

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Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Me: I'm an instructional designer. Ellen Wagner says, " I Ds help transform intangible information assets into things of great business or epistemological value." Tags: instructional design. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? I create eLearning.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Designers

Integrated Learnings

I was thinking about the book the other day, and I also started thinking about how those habits might translate for instructional design specifically. As instructional designers, we can be proactive by observing business trends and building relationships with our clients. Here’s what I came up with….

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Is this instructional design?

The eLearning Coach

A reader named Michaela recently emailed to ask what an instructional designer does. There are lots of debates online regarding the value of instructional designers. Sure, instructional designers need to get unstuck, grow and shift things around. What is instructional design? Here’s mine.