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Instructional Design Portfolio Resources

Experiencing eLearning

Everyone working in instructional design, learning experience design, or elearning should have a portfolio. This post on building an instructional design portfolio includes what to include and additional tips. These are both self-hosted sites now, although my blog was on WordPress.com for many years.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

CourseArc

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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Everything Freelance: Podcast with Luke Hobson

Experiencing eLearning

If the player doesn’t appear below, try listening on Luke’s website. Luke had a great list of questions on some common and important topics for instructional design and elearning freelancers. How did you become an instructional designer? Should you use sites like Fiverr and Upwork?

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Best Websites Designed for Schools: Features & Examples

Think Orion

A school website is a must-have for creating an excellent first impression. No matter what educational institution you are in, virtual or classroom-based, a good school website will attract new students, keep current students informed, showcase school events, alum network, and, most importantly, educate visitors. Source: Sci High 2.

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How Freelance Clients Find Me

Experiencing eLearning

My portfolio is on my business website. If I was starting over now, I’d register a domain right away and create my blog as part of my website and portfolio. Since I started this blog as a free WordPress site years before I decided to become a consultant, I didn’t think about the domain as a business need at the time.

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7 Reasons LearnDash Is the Best LMS for Developers

LearnDash

As a self-hosted LMS, you have full control over your content and website architecture. While not having to worry about technical details like hosting and site security are a relief to many, developers with the knowledge and technical background to make informed decisions on the subjects dislike having those choices made for them.

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L&D and D&D: Learning and Role Playing Games

Experiencing eLearning

We talked about how games overlap with instructional design. We found a number of parallels between the collaborative storytelling for games and the instructional design process. If the video isn’t embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube or on the TLDC site. It was a really fun, geeky conversation.

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