The Learning Dispatch

AUGUST 4, 2016

Instructional designer Brandon Winston joined the Microassist curriculum development team in May 2016. In roughly three minutes, Brandon gives insight on what an instructional designer does and why he’s so passionate about the process of developing custom training. Interview transcript. I love learning.

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Origin Learning

AUGUST 7, 2018

Game thinking requires the learning experience designer – both the instructional designer and the graphic designer contributing to the learning content to think in terms of the end-user learner. Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Gamification, Game Thinking and Motivational Design”. Thinking like the Learner.

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eFront

APRIL 26, 2016

We hate to burst your glory bubble, but you may still be lacking a few more skills to beat the eLearning market of 2016. Learning Interface Design (LID) is a new wave that has captured the imagination of experts like you. With time and substantial user feedback , we will be able to perfect interface design for learning.

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LearnUpon

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Some of the key takeaways for me were: Every time you tell a story, be it a magician on stage or an instructional designer developing an eLearning course, you select what you want to say, but because you are unlikely to tell everything that happened you are effectively telling a lie.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 16, 2016

For those who are e-learning developers, instructional designers (with the background to back it) or instructional technologists, I feel your pain. Welcome to 2016. Why not include storyboards for those ID folks, e-learning developers and course builders who gain experience and knowledge and wish to go to the next step?

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

It can also help if you plot out the initial narrative—a rough sketch of the story or a simple storyboard draft. 21, 2016 GE Reports. This helps you to stay on track and develop “stories with intention.” References Guy Boulton. By turning medical scans into adventures, GE eases children's fears. Journal Sentinel, Jan. YouTube, Oct.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Last month, I had the honor of speaking at the 2016 ATD TechKnowledge Conference in Las Vegas. I discussed sketching and prototyping as a design methodology for designing effective e-learning. Importance of Design. First, I want to emphasize how important it is for us to embrace the DESIGN aspect of instructional design.

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Trivantis

JULY 21, 2016

This course got such great response from viewers that it won the 2016 Lectora® User Conference Community Course Template Contest! Did you create a storyboard? Karlis also talked about the graphic design decisions the team made during development. How did you choose which programs to use? What was your initial objective?

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ATD Learning Technologies

OCTOBER 26, 2016

To aid us in mapping out this digital learning journey, at Virtual Gurus we use something called a wireframe, a document that you may refer to as a design document or a storyboard. To generate a strong learning experience, we need to harness the collection of resources available to us.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Though it appeared as a grey, barely visible caption that no learner would probably take seriously, I was annoyed and took it seriously because it was “not what i wanted” In the interest of time, and at my wit’s end, I opted to give the learner a linear experience and finished 2016 feeling defeated. Instructions Slide.

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Litmos

DECEMBER 8, 2016

It's the end of the year and, in case you've missed the most popular blog posts throughout 2016, I've compiled the top 5 for you here. But overall, for 2016 these 5 posts came out on top. Why Instructional Design is No Longer Trending. Why has the interest in instructional design declined over the last 12 years?

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Limestone Learning

JUNE 21, 2018

Creating video is time-consuming because you need to storyboard and edit video and audio. According to Nielsen, the number of “avid” podcast fans increased by 19% between 2016 and 2017, a rise driven mostly by smartphone use. They can follow the same instructional design logic as other platforms. Production is easier.

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