Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
These are some of my favorite instructional design and elearning books, plus recommendations from readers of my blog. First Principles of Instruction: An Instructional Design Theory is a collection of David Merrill’s academic papers on his theory of the “First Principles” in instruction.
eLearningMind
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Most of the time, and especially when instructional design is done in-house, the teams for instructional design and product design and development work together. Designers get a better sense of how to apply written content. Writers have an opportunity to influence user experience.
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 9, 2024
This month marks 20 years since I started at my first instructional design job. In my research on related careers, I discovered instructional design and started reading everything I could find online. It took me a year of searching to get that job and transition from training to instructional design.
Experiencing eLearning
MAY 30, 2023
What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.
Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Freelance eLearning Designer
The effectiveness of any eLearning course is only as good as its instructional design. But can instructional design alone make an eLearning course engaging and effective? The truth is, good eLearning design is more than just instructional design.
Brilliant Teams
JULY 28, 2024
Instructional design is essential for developing eLearning courses that are both engaging and impactful. By leveraging key instructional design strategies, businesses can enhance their training programs, improve learner outcomes, and achieve their training objectives. Key Instructional Design Strategies 1.
Experiencing eLearning
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
While most of the the presentations, webinars, and podcast interviews that I do relate to scenario-based learning , I have also spoken with multiple groups about instructional design careers and freelancing. This post is a collection of all of my presentations and podcasts about instructional design careers and freelancing.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?
Speaker: Lonna Jobson, Instructional Design Team Lead, Inno-Versity, and Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity
Join Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist at Inno-Versity, and Lonna Jobson, Instructional Design Team Lead of Inno-Versity, as they continue in this series by addressing the third tier of the Triple Bottom Line of eLearning – the learners!
Speaker: Andrea Mikulenas, Instructional Design Team Lead, Inno-Versity, and Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity
Join Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist at Inno-Versity, and Andrea Mikulenas, Instructional Design Team Lead of Inno-Versity, as they assess a return on learning by looking at the unique returns and investments involved in the second layer of the Triple Bottom Line of eLearning – the Learning Leaders!
Speaker: Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology, Bloomsburg University
Instructional designers tend to think content first and action second. Game designers tend to think action first. As a result, most games are engaging, intriguing, and immersive, while instructional content tends to be boring and perfunctory. In this webinar, Karl Kapp will help you make that shift.
Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, ELB Learning & Luke Talbot - Chief Product Officer, Userlane
Storytelling design. Tips for virtual instruction engagement. How to design efficient eLearning training programs to prevent employee frustration and disengagement. Video coaching programs. January 10, 2023 at 9:30 am PT, 12:30 pm ET, 5:30 pm GMT
Speaker: Margie Meacham
But it’s not so easy to change the way you design learning. While microlearning may be a solution, it takes time and resources to rethink instructional design. Microlearning isn’t just a way to design new learning; it can be a way to revitalize existing content too. Then there’s the challenge of all that existing content.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward (and sometimes disastrous) learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to ensure optimal results. The common challenges instructional designers and other learning professionals come across when implementing localization. translates to “are you lactating?”
Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, and Creator of The eLearning Designer's Academy
In this session, we will explore many of the reasons why most eLearning fails and the components that contribute to bad eLearning design. we will also explore how bad eLearning design can negatively affect the learning experience. Why good eLearning requires more than instructional design.
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