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Bit by the Instructional Design Bug: A Conversation with Connie Malamed

TalentLMS

And our work is incredibly varied—analyzing content, interviewing audience members, designing user interfaces, developing eLearning, writing video scripts, and more. Or you could be writing a video script and going to a shoot.” For example, education, psychology, writing, graphic design. And so on.” “In

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Story Machines

Learning with e's

But I have also, as those of you who follow this blog, grown back into my roots as a performance poet and writer. In a future blog I will present a review of the book, but before that I want to mention an accompanying resource that Mike has created to promote the book. A computer program is only as good as its coders.

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Setting the Right Performance Goals for Learning Programs

Watershed

In our last blog post, we covered the first step of the BALDDIE instructional design method— identifying business goals with measurable KPIs to link to learning initiatives. Too often, even when a business goal has been identified, learning programs aren’t designed with a clear plan of how that goal will be achieved.

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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Similar post in this blog: In Response: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09--Part I 5. Comments on other blog(s) regarding qualities of an ID: Perfect Behaviour 6. Blog posts have waxed eloquent about the roles and functions of an ID. The belief that writing skill is tantamount to an ID’s skill still abides.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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How to Write an Irresistible Course Description

LearnDash

And yet, what you write in your course description is one of the most important factors in convincing learners to sign up. But if you’re also writing a longer course page—which I would recommend—it may help to start with the detailed version and then edit down to something in the neighborhood of 150 words. Not a problem, right?

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Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs

Experiencing eLearning

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. Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. E-learning.