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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. The other day, I had a classic need for performance support. The support section of the site did list the error codes, but numerically, not by icon. This is just bad design, and it’s so obvious how to ameliorate it.

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Instructional Design: Still Kicking! 

Learning Rebels

Instructional Design is NOT dead! Back in 2017, I wrote a post about the importance of instructional design and its power to create impactful learning experiences. Some might think that with all this rapid change, instructional design itself might be fading into the background. But fear not.

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The Art of Instructional Designing – PowerPoint Courses and Beyond

Raptivity

There is a forever need for corporate and educational online training to be effective and engaging, and the onus of the same generally lies with Instructional Designers. However instructional designers need not limit themselves to just dumping the PowerPoint content into an eLearning or online format as part of their course creation.

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Microlearning Case Study: Performance Support

Upside Learning

Performance support is really about two things: the right information, at the right time. We analyzed the need and the situation and leveraged a principled assessment to design and deliver a solution. We analyzed the need and the situation and leveraged a principled assessment to design and deliver a solution.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.

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What is Learning Experience Design?

eLearningMind

UX designers are the rock stars of the design world: they’re the folks who worry about user experience on everything from phone apps to toasters to your car’s coffee cup holders. In the corporate world, LxDs, or Learning Experience Designers, are the rock stars in the eLearning space. What is Learning Experience Design (LxD)?

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Canaries in the Coal Mine: Instructional Design in the Age of AI

Learningtogo

Canaries in the Coal Mine: Instructional Design in the Age of AI by Margie Meacham The phrase “ canaries in the coal mine ” comes from the practice of miners bringing canaries into coal mines to detect the presence of carbon monoxide. It’s an elegant and life-saving solution for the miners; not so much for the canaries.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.