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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN BASICS – GOALS

Learnnovators

Earl Nightingale This is true not just at work and in life, but also in instructional design. These we’ll refer to as learning, or performance, outcomes. Here’s a likely conversation that might happen between you (the instructional designer) and your stakeholder. We’ll call these business goals.

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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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How to Identify a Good eLearning Development Company for Custom Solutions

IT Training Department Blog

You could even seek out a generalist or perhaps a specialist instructional designer ! If you only go into industry specialists, you could end up with a subject matter expert (SME) rather than an eLearning developer or instructional designer. Not only that, is eLearning even the right solution for your problem?

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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

B Online Learning

This blog post covers a recent online conversation I had with an attendee at one of our eLearning Design Essentials workshops. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information. One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’.

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Learning Objectives: Who Cares?

Innovative Learning Group

What Really Matters When Documenting Course Goals When I started in the world of L&D, one of the biggest shocks I had was the battle over the learning objective. I had moved from my life as a small-town newspaper reporter to a supporting role on an e-learning development team. But now I find myself wondering, “Who cares?”

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Creating Effective Software Application Training Using Video for Instructional Designers and eLearning Developers

Instancy

Introduction: In the evolving digital education landscape, video-based training modules have become indispensable tools for instructional designers and eLearning developers. Understanding Your Audience The first step in any instructional design project is understanding your audience deeply.

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Employee Generated Learning, a transcending role for Instructional Designers 

Challenge to Learn

In this blog post, I elaborated on how this transformation boils down to a shift away from content creation by instructional designers. Instead, learning content is often being generated in a more decentralized manner by the employees. I have been referring to this concept as Employee Generated Learning.