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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? What does an instructional designer do?

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35 More Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer

The eLearning Coach

A few months ago I published a list of the 10 Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer. The comments more or less fell into a few categories: working with SMEs, designing and developing content, love of learning, business savvy and personal attributes. The effective instructional designer should: Competently Work with SMEs.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Video Killed the Radio Star but What About the Instructional Designer?

Mark Oehlert

| Main | Alternative and Activist Search Engines » June 21, 2007 Video Killed the Radio Star but What About the Instructional Designer? The business model here though is a bit different. We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay

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The Future Of Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? Karl: The biggest problem is that in the learning field we sometimes get seduced by the technology and forget the underlying learning need and, even more importantly, the underlying business need.

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

Not all online courses are narrated and often instructions are left as text only. Just in case you’re a developer or in case your business is looking for a TTS technology, check out the Wizzard site. They produce speech applications for developers and businesses and they use AT&T’s Natural Voices. Acapela Group.

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Review: The Back of the Napkin

The eLearning Coach

Although this book is oriented toward the solving and selling of ideas in business, most of the techniques and concepts can be easily transferred to the general notion of solving problems through visual thinking. Often, our roles expand beyond design and development and into the business realm. I’m a big fan of this approach.

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Lynda.com Online Training Library Review

The eLearning Coach

The courses incorporate high-quality instructional strategies. The tutorials include presentation tools and eLearning applications, graphic design software, video and audio editing packages, web design and development, iPhone apps, business applications (Office, Google docs), content management systems and many other categories.

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