Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s not as if designers and developers are heartless beasts who think that people with disabilities deserve to be left out. Most often, it’s that we’re not sure how to develop accessible eLearning without compromising effective instructional design. Or we think it will be too much trouble or cost too much.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 9, 2024

These are my top blog posts from 2023 plus a review of a few other accomplishments and my goals for 2024. Top new blog posts of 2023 I would never have guessed that a post on learning objectives would be my top post for the year, but this turned out to be a surprisingly controversial topic. Read more about using AI to write scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 19, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. I’m experimenting with AI image tools to create images for my blog posts. This was created in Playground and edited in Affinity Designer. Tristia Hennessey is testing out a branching scenario builder prompt based on a prompt for writing Choose Your Own Adventure stories.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Top 5 new blog posts of 2022. I wrote about 30 new blog posts this year and updated about 20 older posts. These are the top five new blog posts for 2022. How Research Informs My Work : How research informs my work as an instructional designer, in writing, designing, and justifying my decisions.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on UX, accessibility, branching scenarios, Twine, instructional design blogs, free/freemium tools, and systems thinking. 7 Articles To Help You Improve Your eLearning Designs. Guidelines for writing good alt text. Accessibility and alt text.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design. Top books, blogs, videos, and more to excel as an instructional designer. Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Scenario Design: Go to Whoa If scenarios are a powerful learning solution, how do you go about designing them? As with all learning design, you need appropriate initial information gathering, then aligned design, implementation in appropriate technologies, and evaluation to test and finalize the design.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

This morning I had an idea for a ‘ pay it forward ‘ blogging/writing challenge. The premise is simple … once nominated you will be presented with a title or theme with which you can write about. You can write this on whatever medium you like or prefer to use (blog, LinkedIn, Medium, etc.),

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CourseArc

APRIL 18, 2024

Put Info in Logical Order There is a new course offering coming this fall called Designing Accessible Outdoor Spaces. Designing Accessible Outdoor Spaces is a new course that will be offered this fall. Tips to Write for Clarity and Understanding Put information in logical order, with the important details first. Avoid jargon.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Designing an eLearning course can seem like an intimidating task. Perhaps more importantly, what can you do to make sure that you design an eLearning course that delivers real results? Tim Slade is a speaker, award-winning freelance eLearning designer and the author of the book, ‘ The eLearning Designer’s Handbook.’

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

Questions about writing branching scenarios? Do you have questions about writing branching scenarios, including writing questions and options like these? Many of my blog posts are based on questions I get from readers. I may answer it in a future blog post. Upcoming events Creating Your Online E-Learning Portfolio.

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Making Change

AUGUST 20, 2019

Need to write a scenario question? Get ideas from these three classic blog posts that you might have missed. My four-week online scenario design course starts the first week of September. You’ll get hands-on practice writing scenarios and get my personal feedback on your work. The same question three ways.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This will pull together content from my blog and past presentations , as well as new content and activities that will only be available in the course. Design Your Scenario Overview. Story concept Characters Challenge Context Consequences Activity: Write your scenario overview. Write Your Scenario. Develop Your Scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. These aren’t learning or training games, but it’s useful to look at games outside of L&D for ideas on game mechanics, look and feel, choice writing, and other elements of games. Transitioning from education to instructional design. Games built in Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. AI, Instructional Design, and OER – improving learning I agree with the idea that AI and LLMs will make it much easier to create a first draft of content. The topics include writing proposals, pricing, automating processes, email and phone scripts, positioning, and more.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I have written over 1100 blog posts since I started this blog in 2006. What does an instructional designer do? Over the years, many people have asked me what an instructional designer does and how to get into the field. Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary. Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here’s the outline: Plan Your Branching Scenario Design Your Scenario Overview Draft Your First Decision Create Your Branching Structure Write Your Scenario Develop Your Scenario Enhance Your Scenario Review and Refine Your Scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on instructional writing, identifying strengths, project management tools, design principles, and more. Instructional writing. The before and after writing example shows what a significant difference it can make. Writing robotic speech.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 4, 2023

Dialogue can be tricky to write. When I teach people how to write branching scenarios, writing dialogue is one of the places people get stuck. If you’re used to writing in a more formal style, writing dialogue can feel very unfamiliar. Tip #1: Use more contractions When you write dialogue, use contractions.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on growth mindset, an AI tool for instructional design, branching scenarios, accessibility, and a magazine issue with elearning articles by multiple prominent authors. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 12, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on writing branching scenarios, free tools, content curation, xAPI, and getting started in Storyline. Writing branching scenarios. Does writing style change how learners perceive choices in a branched scenario? Learningworld Design.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 17, 2021

After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. Affinity Designer. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. WordPress has been my tool of choice for blogging for nearly 15 years.

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Philip's Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Instantly, the employee Y responded with confidence, "I am an Instructional Designer". I never knew that our firm started expanding solutions into Interior Designing. What do you think about the response from the Instructional Designer? To his surprise, employee X remarked, "Really? Anyways, that's cool!"

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 11, 2023

I tried out some really wonderful, creative games that left me reflecting on the design choices that made them fun and engaging. Luckily, those hours weren’t completely wasted because I learned a lot about effective (and ineffective) game design. They want to see some examples and talk about design ideas. What do you do first?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 26, 2020

I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on writing about unfamiliar subjects plus 3 different sets of instructional design competencies. Writing when you’re not a SME. You start with a solid foundation of skills and an understanding of how to write for different audiences.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2021

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Share everything you know Chris Lema writes about the benefits of blogging and sharing your knowledge generously. And while this is about blogging, the same concepts apply to any other method of sharing: videos, podcasts, etc. Sometimes I write for future me.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2022

After struggling to write them and make them work in linear tools, it’s amazing how much faster I can develop multiple connected paths in Twine. Affinity Designer. I use Affinity Designer nearly every week to edit images for elearning. WordPress has been my tool of choice for blogging for over 15 years. Self-development.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some of these resources are exclusive to the course and won’t be available on my blog or through other sources. Instructional designers who want to create a branching scenario. What if I don’t do any development in my work, only planning and writing? I don’t write scenarios; I just want to build them.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I’m active in the instructional design subreddit (/r/instructionaldesign). Someone without an instructional design background posted this question about how to design training for volunteers. Backwards Design. The Design Process. sosaudio at [link]. I’m sure lots of others will be helped with your post.

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Origin Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In this blog post, we list down the best practices that we have adopted in creating effective and engaging eLearning solutions. Intelligent by Design. We had published an earlier blog post that examined the ‘ Elements of Engaging eLearning Design ’. Typically, the client approves the design document and then work starts.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Kristin Torrence GitHub – doughahn/chat-souffle: A learning guild xAPI project helping learning designers practice prompt engineering. The scenario itself is about using ChatGPT for writing multiple choice assessments. Twine project that reports to xAPI.

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IT Training Department Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

That’s what spurred my idea to write about where to put digital training content if you don’t have an LMS. This is a comparison of the value of technical writing vs. instructional design. If you know me at all then you know I hold more value in instructional design. But that’s neither here nor there.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

I’m happy to report that the ebook version of my next tome, Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design From Instructional to Transformational , is now available for pre-order ! Having written one of the books on the learning science side, Clark has undertaken to write the other half. Why should you care? Why this book?

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Instructional Designers. E-learning.

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Hurix Digital

MARCH 18, 2024

Typesetting is a crucial aspect of design that involves arranging text in a visually pleasing and readable manner. When designers choose fonts and arrange text nicely, reading is more enjoyable. Writing has been one of the most fundamental forms of communication since the Cognitive Revolution. Typesetting is an ancient art.

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