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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills

Experiencing eLearning

Do instructional designers and learning experience designers need to know how to use development tools, or should they focus just on analysis and design? What about people who only do development but no design; are they instructional designers? How much project management falls under the role of instructional designer?

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Formal vs informal learning and what the LMS should do about them

Matrix

Adult learning is very much connected to need and usefulness and as a result it’s paramount for instructional designers to prove the importance of any material they present and allow for learners to go about finding what they think is of educational value at a certain point. Formal and informal learning – two peas in the same pod.

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How To: Design, Develop and Deliver eLearning

B Online Learning

A cynic might even argue that there are vested interests in the form of specialist consultants [.]. Perhaps people are intimidated by the “newness” and fear investing on the “bleeding” edge. Perhaps they have had their fingers burned in the past.

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ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?

Performance Learning Productivity

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content.

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Moving learning back to the business

Challenge to Learn

Companies hire learning specialists and instructional designers to create the training courses. This means knowledge has to be transferred from the business to the learning and development (L&D) department. Trends or hypes like 70:20:10, five moments of learning need, and many others all point in that direction.

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How the pandemic transformed L&D

Matrix

In turn, instructional designers, trainers, and coaches were asked to come up – almost overnight – with comprehensive guides about managing oneself and one’s tasks when working from home. When faced with turning a three-day in-person onboarding program into a viable virtual solution, learning specialists had to adapt to the new requirements.

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5 Ways Managers Can Encourage Staff To Do Professional Development Online

Web Courseworks

In my previous blog post, I wrote about how workers and job seekers likely undervalue the benefits of free online learning and professional development opportunities. Segment specialties and develop specialists. Build a stable of specialists by catering to the unique skill and knowledge of each member of your team.