Instructional Design

July 27, 2019

5 Essential Things That You Need As An Instructional Designer

Being an architect of learning, Instructional Designers construct meaningful learning experiences for learners. To successfully provide the best Instructional Design services in the design process, 5 skills and knowledge-sets are essential.

by Sirui Wang

July 5, 2019

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How To Create Effective Storyboards For eLearning?

If you are new to Instructional Design, you have probably already heard the term storyboard, but you still do not know how to create one?

by Vesela Georgieva

June 21, 2019

6 Ways To Find Design Inspiration For Your eLearning Course

Instructional Designers run into the problem of finding inspiration a lot throughout their career, and that is when they must know where to look and what to do. This article is written to help Instructional Designers with exactly that. Let’s find you some inspiration!

by Debadrita Sengupta

May 17, 2019

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy To Build A Solid Foundation For Business Learning

Understanding the level of learning needed will allow you to appropriately plan the time required for training, the amount of support needed, and the degree of follow up required.

by Deanna Flanagan

May 9, 2019

Editors' Choice

How To Use Bloom's Taxonomy For Business

Bloom's Taxonomy represents different levels of learning and should be utilized when training objectives are developed to understand how to train the task, how much time the training will take, and how to measure successful learning when the training is complete.

by Deanna Flanagan

May 4, 2019

6 Tips To Incorporate Discovery Learning Into Your eLearning Course Design

Learning by doing is one of the most immersive education strategies, especially if your teacher offers encouragement and immediate feedback. Is it still possible to use this system in an eLearning course that lacks an on-site instructor?

by Christopher Pappas

April 26, 2019

Identify The Skill Gap Via xAPI And Boost Learners' Performance (KPIs)

Are your eLearning courses improving learning performance? This article is about identifying common denominator between learning and performance. We need to stop designing SCORM-based courses. xAPI gives you more analytical data to compare with KPIs.

by Mohammad Hassam

April 25, 2019

Locked Navigation: Enriched User Experience

“The whole point of human-centred design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable and enjoyable.” - Donald Norman

by Sonal Adwani

April 19, 2019

Adult Learning Explained In A Simplified Manner

There are a lot of resources on adult learning principles and theories out there. This one simplifies them down to the core: adults are complicated and difficult.

by David Castaneda

April 17, 2019

Worst-Case Scenarios Create Effective Learning

An Instructional Designer can leverage worst-case information to develop effective, sticky learning.

by Deanna Flanagan

March 30, 2019

When Philosophy Meets The Corporate World Of Learning Professionals

Did you know that having your own philosophy of adult learning could be of immense value to you as a corporate learning professional? Learn to articulate your own philosophical orientation by following best practices and guidelines below.

by Sunanda Pandit Muzumdar, MEd, MSt, BA

March 29, 2019

Editors' Choice

9 Questions To Ask Your SME When Developing A New Course

As Instructional Designers, we frequently partner with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to develop brand new courses. Use these 9 questions in your next meeting to get the information you need and produce the course that they want!

by Andraya M Goodwin