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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills

Experiencing eLearning

What about people who only do development but no design; are they instructional designers? Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. I would classify that as elearning development or media development instead. T-Shaped skills.

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The 17 Best eLearning Books for Instructional Designers

learnWorlds

To do this, she explains how you can make sense of visual information and gives out some key principles and methodologies of design, cognition, perception. What you will learn: All the basics of e-learning design and development. Analyze and evaluate the e-learning course design and development process.

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The 17 Best eLearning Ebooks for Instructional Designers

learnWorlds

To do this, she explains how you can make sense of visual information and gives out some key principles and methodologies of design, cognition, perception. What you will learn: All the basics of e-learning design and development. Analyze and evaluate the e-learning course design and development process.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Rapid e-Learning, Templates, & SMEs

Learning Visions

Silke Fleischer of Adobe Captivate fame, in her post Update on eLearning Guild Conference , talks about the rapid e-learning panel of which she was a part, and the subject of SMEs and IDs: Some instructional designers want SMEs to use rapid tools to create rapid eLearning, some would not want them near an authoring tool. We got Wii!

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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills

Experiencing eLearning

What about people who only do development but no design; are they instructional designers? Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. I would classify that as elearning development or media development instead.

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Instructional Designer and Course Developer: One Person or Two?

The Learning Dispatch

Continuing our discussion about roles in a training team , this month we’re looking at the advantages of separating the roles of instructional designer and course developer. It’s pretty common for an elearning development team to have a single person who is responsible for building elearning.

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Your Perfect Elearning Development Shop: An Individual or a Team?

The Learning Dispatch

When you’re considering a new elearning project, how much thought do you give to the size of the instructional design shop that you’re engaging for elearning development? Broadly speaking, as an instructional designer (ID), I work with subject matter experts to create content; that content usually ends up in a storyboard.