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Instructional Design Experience Before Your First Job

Experiencing eLearning

Sites like OER Commons and e-learningforkids.org accept content, so you could create something and have it used by real people. If you have recently started as an instructional designer, especially if you switched from teaching/training/another field, how did you prove your skills?

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Cost-Effective Training: Leveraging Free Tools and Resources

Learning Rebels

One of the most common challenges faced by training professionals and instructional designers today is that the purse strings are tightening and continuing to tighten, with little sunlight at the end of the tunnel. But there are plenty of free tools we can leverage without sacrificing training quality.

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The Making of a Future-proof Online Learning Program for Colleges & Universities

Hurix Digital

These sources include open educational sources (OERs). Early research suggests that learning from OERs is similar to that achieved from traditional textbooks. Many of the faculty members may not be familiar with the method of online delivery, and hence need to be trained appropriately during the course design phase.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. The role of the teacher will evolve. It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

ID Reflections

I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.” MOOCs do not always require custom-built content to set up unless the need is very specific.

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CourseArc Develops Tool that Enables Sharing of Course Content Across Counties and States

CourseArc

The feature supports the 5 R’s of Open Educational Resources (OER): Retain; Reuse; Revise; Remix; and Redistribute. CourseArc customers include encompassing K-12 school districts, state-level K-12 virtual learning organizations, community colleges, four-year institutions, graduate programs, nonprofits, and other training organizations.

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75 Free Tools That Power Up Custom eLearning Development

Thinkdom

Zoom Basic : A well-known tool for video conferencing,, is also suitable for online learning sessions or remote training. Recommended Read: How to Use Canva on ChatGPT and Build Your Training Content with AI 5. Related: Scenario-Based eLearning For Posh Compliance Training 6.