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Always Be Consistent Most of the Time

Association eLearning

Would you notice if the sun didn’t come up tomorrow? Of course you would, because the sun comes up every day. The key takeaway is that effective pattern breaking is something that should be done intentionally for a specific purpose, not “just because.” There’s no audio narration, no background music, and no sound effects.

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The Sun has Risen on Learning Experience Design

NovoEd

You’re an instructional designer who has invested lots of time and energy into creating beautiful online modules for a corporate course. It’s not you, it’s Instructional Design. The training we have been building as Instructional Designers isn’t cutting it anymore. Real learning doesn’t happen through instruction.

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The Most Desired Qualities of an Instructional Designer

Adobe Captivate

Instructional Designer Qualities Required in eLearning. Instructional Designers are indispensable in an eLearning courseware development process. They understand the problem, develop corresponding solution and devise a plan for its effective implementation. An instructional designer should be a…. Quick Learner.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Project Sun Microsytems Brandon Carson, instructional designer Project: New Hire Experience “Join the Network&# Sun has put a real focus on telecommuting -- many employees dont work in an office.

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Friday Finds — Animations for Learning, Make Your Own GPT, Designing to Persuade

Mike Taylor

And I plan to fully soak up this next trip around the sun! Take away : The effectiveness of animations in learning is context-dependent, requiring designers to carefully assess their use based on the material’s complexity and educational goals. So here’s to laughing more, stressing less, and embracing the journey.

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Escape to the sun

Good To Great

← Good e-learning: engaging, relevant and effective Learning about learning → Like Be the first to like this post. I will also be beavering away on my dissertation as the deadline is looming. See you in a week! Share this: This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged dissertation. Bookmark the permalink.

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LxD is the new Instructional Designer

eLearningMind

The natural result of evolution and rebranding in the Learning and Development (L&D) field, you’ll probably notice that most job boards list positions for LxDs, rather than once-common Instructional Designers. It makes sense since the focus of instructional design was the “instruction” for content consumed by corporate learners.