Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2010

Another book for the to-read list: Open Source Instructional Design by Nathaniel Eckel (with a nice forward by our old friend, Professor Karl Kapp ). Eckel’s premise: that traditional methods of ISD have created an adversarial relationship between the ID and the SME.

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Maestro

MARCH 24, 2022

What instructional design tools are currently in your toolbox? At Maestro, we regularly take stock in the available tools for instructional designers and consider what the best ones are, from software to style guides, diagnostics to downloads. Instructional design software tools. Collaboration tools.

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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.

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Hurix Digital

JULY 28, 2023

The latest instructional design trends have replaced traditional pedagogical approaches. With the presence of digital instructional material, learning has become a personalized experience that ensures better retention and engagement. Table of Contents What is an Instructional Design?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 23, 2024

There’s a category for remote facilitation, but some techniques not tagged that could potentially be used or adapted for vILT too. Books for IDs 12 Books for Instructional Designers to Read This Year Connie Malamed shares 12 books for instructional designers, all recent publications.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The exciting news is that Charles Reigeluth will be joining us on Instructional Design Live this Friday at noon eastern. How does the Information-Age paradigm of instruction differ from the Industrial-Age paradigm? What are the key issues for designing instruction for the Information-Age paradigm of instruction?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2010

Episode #8 of Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. A conversation with Professor Karl Kapp on instructional design – with a focus on the differences in ID as a practice in the academic and corporate worlds. In corporate environment – following the ADDIE model is a good way to ensure quality. ADDIE is a process.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I’ve gotten a bunch of comments from students in the Masters of Instructional Design program at Walden in the last week—enough that I suspect that there’s an assignment that requires commenting on a blog. Posted in Instructional Design, Read/Write Web.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 4, 2010

Amit Garg has posted a nice list of 22 essential books for beginning instructional designers. Which reminded me of an old post of mine from 2008: Essential Reading for Instructional Design. Tags: books instructional design. Lots of books to read, so get to work, you!

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

I’d like some help answering the following question I received this morning: May i know the demand for instructional designers increase in the near future? Bureau of Labor Statistics was predictions for Instructional Coordinators and Training and Development Specialists. Posted in Careers & Work, Instructional Design.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 12, 2010

I received a question from a current classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview for an instructional design position. How would your skills transfer from teaching to instructional design? Any sage wisdom?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In the discussion on the course writer vs. instructional designer and SME models of development, Pdrum left this comment : My job includes being an IT division HR director at a university. How important is content expertise in the field for instructional designers? Posted in Instructional Design, SMEs.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 27, 2010

At the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference this week, Jean Marripodi convinced Steve Acheson and myself to host a debate on the viability of ADDIE in her ID Zone. While both of us can see both sides of ADDIE, Steve uses it, so I was left to take the contrary (aligning well to my ‘genial malcontent’ nature).

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I received a question today that I can’t really answer, so I’m hoping that some of you out there who have actual degrees in instructional design can help me out. Posted in Accessibility, Instructional Design. Tags: Accessibility Instructional Design.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Basically, his former group borrowed from Six Sigma and added the ‘Define’ step to the beginning of the learning industry-standard ADDIE model. (As As a reminder, ADDIE stands for Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate.). Truly, ADDIE should have been DADDIE all along. What constitutes Define?

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 13, 2009

She graciously agreed to let me republish her question here, as I’m curious what others think about these two models for course design. A colleague of mine challenged my thinking recently on course design. I have always preferred having an instructional designer and a SME work collaboratively to develop online course work.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Something like this might be usable in Twine with some tweaking to assign this formatting based on tags. Transitioning from education to instructional design. Melanie Knight has been doing some great posts sharing her notes and reflections as she learns about instructional design and transitions her career.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2010

Instructional-Design Theories and Models: An Overview of their Current Status, edited by Charles M. Instructional design, defined: “The discipline of instructional design is concerned primarily with prescribing optimal methods of instruction to bring about desired changes in student knowledge and skills.” (p.4)

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2010

As an instructional designer, you start by learning a whole lot of theories and models. After a few years you realize that instructional design is more an art rather than just pure science – it is a skill honed with experience, and can’t really be narrowed down into a set of guidelines that will fit every situation.

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Making Change

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’ve been tweeting a daily idea to spark your instructional design creativity. Tags: Instructional design. To get your daily ID idea, follow me on Twitter. (I I don’t say much!). Some recent tweets in the series: Ask your SME, “What are the 3 most common mistakes people make?&# Using a story?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

What Is Instructional Design? Tags: instructional design. I stumbled on this short presentation on Slideshare from ejars. View more presentations from ejars. What do you think? Has he got it right?

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 14, 2009

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present at the eLearning Guild's "Designing and Managing Learning in 3-D Virtual Worlds and Immersive Environments" for the opening general session of the online conference. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. It was a lot of fun with a great group of attendees.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Me: I'm an instructional designer. Tags: instructional design. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? Are you met with comprehension or blank stares? This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? I create eLearning. Playground Mom: [blank stare] Me: corporate training.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Friday, February 19th, I’ll be talking it up with Robert Squires and the rest of the ID Live crew on this week’s edition of Instructional Design Live on the EdTechTalk channel. Tags: me instructional design edtechtalk. But don’t tell anyone that or they’ll think I’m some kind of weirdo. Why not listen in?

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Upside Learning

JULY 8, 2010

We’ve had some new instructional designers join Upside Learning recently. While they’ve been assigned to work on projects on one hand, they’re also required to hit the ground running when it comes to media design. To me, this is essential knowledge before one can be effective in an ID role that’s mostly about media design.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Each passage is tagged accordingly. In Harlowe, you can color code each tag. In this scenario, I will assign points for each choice aligned with the tags I already set. Helping stakeholders see the benefits of better design will ultimately give them better results.] Good, OK, and bad choices. Set score variable default.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 6, 2010

A reader named Michaela recently emailed to ask what an instructional designer does. There are lots of debates online regarding the value of instructional designers. Sure, instructional designers need to get unstuck, grow and shift things around. What is instructional design? Here’s mine.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 19, 2008

Sunanda commented on my Is Instructional Design the Right Career? Unfortunately, I have no idea about training for instructional designers outside the US. Technorati Tags: instructionaldesign , training , education. post last week: I would like to know about training programmes in ID given by Indian institutes.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 18, 2008

So my question is, are there instructional design companies that will let you work remotely to some degree or do most require you to be in office to interact with SME’s or other office staff? A Google search for “‘instructional designer’ telecommute&# returns over 18,000 hits, so there are things out there.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 13, 2009

John Curry's looking for input from instructional designers. You may remember him from such posts as: Essential Reading for Instructional Design? and How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition He's interested in the disconnect between academia and corporate design.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I was thinking about the book the other day, and I also started thinking about how those habits might translate for instructional design specifically. As instructional designers, we can be proactive by observing business trends and building relationships with our clients. Here’s what I came up with….

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 14, 2010

I see books on instructional design and eLearning, books and music that my kids will like, travel guides for my wife, the list goes on and on. Amazon's approach fits really well with instructional design. How does this relate to instructional design (besides avoiding certain shock tactics)?

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Have you ever seen the claim: "built using proven Instructional Design." (I Tags: buzzword instructional design. I just saw it. Some website. Ain't saying where. But I could equally have found it on the back of a cereal box.) Do you ever wonder how they proved it? Did they prove it?

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If you know me, you’ll know my topic was right up my alley: “Instructional Design: You Do What for a Living?” I asked people to introduce themselves and tell their stories – how they each got into instructional design. Tags: instruct dl09 instructional design. What was your road to ID?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 25, 2009

My friend Robin is working on his Master's Degree in Instructional Design at the University of Massachusetts. There are two surveys: Tools Survey for IDs (closed questions) About You -- the Instructional Designer (open-ended questions, essay format) Thanks! Tags: instructional design survey.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 22, 2010

I'll be talking with Robert Squires today about Instructional Design on the Instructional Design Live show EdTechTalk. Tags: instructional design edtechtalk. Join us for the conversation, today at noon eastern time!

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

John Curry interviewed me for his Introduction to Instructional Design class. I was one of four instructional designers that John interviewed and the only non-degreed one in the bunch. an instructional designer in the Clinical Guidance Organization for Humana Health Care Each interview is about 30 minutes long.

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