Associate Consultant, Leadership & Talent Development
As an Associate Consultant, I participate in activities using my knowledge and expertise of instructional and/or behavioural design to create learning assets (primarily virtual using Articulate 360) to improve performance and build the capacity of leaders and teams.
Whether you are beginning your career in Instructional Design by happenstance, pivoting your way into the field from somewhere else, or fresh out of formal training, this article is for you!
As an enthusiastic and devoted Instructional Designer, I can often get caught up in the details of my work and forget that what I am doing is actually very impactful and rewarding.
After you have been asked to create an online course, and before you let panic set in, reference the ADDIE course development process for guaranteed success.
Learners are stretched by commitments both at work and at home. In turn, this impacts motivation and makes it difficult for learners to buy in to eLearning courses. One way to remedy this disconnect is by catching their attention at the outset with a hook.
Each kind of storyboard has its purpose but in this age of rapid timelines and short attention spans, I want to introduce you to an efficient and effective alternative: a micro storyboard.
There are major parallels between classroom teaching and Instructional Design so don't limit yourself into thinking education can only happen in a brick-and-mortar classroom.