Instructional Design Best Practices

May 4, 2016

7 Tips To Facilitate Learners Self-Control In eLearning

Drive, determination, and motivation are the essential ingredients for eLearning success. But how can you encourage all of these traits in your eLearning course design? In this article, I'll discuss the role of self-control in eLearning and offer 7 tips on how to improve it in your online learners.

by Christopher Pappas

May 1, 2016

AGILE eLearning Course Design: A Step-By-Step Guide For eLearning Professionals

Are you looking for a rapid corporate eLearning course development strategy that doesn't come at the cost of lackluster results? If so, in this article you'll find the steps to follow for optimizing your corporate eLearning development process using an AGILE approach.

by Christopher Pappas

April 30, 2016

Instructional Design For Kinesthetic Learners: 7 Techniques To Employ

Kinesthetic eLearning experiences are tactile in nature. They involve movement, interactivity, and direct contact with the learning materials. All of these things can be difficult to achieve in eLearning. Fortunately, there are ways that you can take a kinesthetic approach when designing your eLearning program. In this article, I'll show you 7 techniques to employ when addressing to kinesthetic learners in eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

April 29, 2016

Safe Learning Environment: Instructional Designers, Safety First!

Schools have long known that a main hindrance to any child’s learning is feeling unsafe. It makes sense; if a child is in fear they cannot learn. On the other hand, a supportive and safe learning environment makes children learn at a better pace. The same is true in any business setting.

by Alex Terego

April 28, 2016

3 Techniques To Improve Memory Retention: An Elephant Never Forgets, But Trainees Do

As an Instructional Designer, I build in ways to help the learners in my courses improve their memory retention of core concepts. Otherwise, I know that if they’re anything like me, most of them will forget older concepts as we move through the material.

by Eric Kean

April 28, 2016

Instructional Designers + Introspective Thinking

Understand our gift for looking within and your job will be easier and your results better. To begin: What could introspective thinking or looking-within possibly have to do with Instructional Design?

by Alex Terego

April 24, 2016

How Elaboration Likelihood Model Can Inform Instructional Design

Here is how the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) can be applied to Instructional Design.

by Adam Gavarkovs

April 22, 2016

Instructional Designers: Is The American Education Status Important To You?

Of course the American education status is important to you; the fate of US schools, US businesses, and the USA itself are inextricably linked. Just don’t shoot the messenger.

by Alex Terego

April 21, 2016

Augmented Learning: An Argument For Its Use

While the concept of “on demand” eLearning is not new to Instructional Designers, the use of Augmented Learning (or AL) is fast catching currency within learning content creation circles. For those of us who are new to this concept, augmented learning is a technique that helps Instructional Designers adapt learning environments to a particular learner. In this article, we will talk about Augmented Learning (AL) and look at some use cases and tips for augmented success.

by Marina Arshavskiy

April 19, 2016

eLearning Solutions: 5 Ways Τo Balance Τhe Time-Cost-Quality Triad

There are always ways to be creative and flexible, and there are things to be done, or cannot be done, to design high-quality eLearning solutions when time and cost are a challenge. Here are 5 of them.

by Ann Iverson

April 17, 2016

7 Tips To Reduce Cognitive Overload In eLearning

Cognitive overload is the thorn in the side of eLearning professionals. In a perfect world, the human mind would be limitless and have the power to absorb an infinite amount of information without feeling strained. Unfortunately, this is not the case and we must ensure that our eLearning courses strike a perfect balance. Give online learners too much information and you overwhelm them; not enough, and you bore them. In this article, I'll share 7 tips to reduce your learners cognitive overload when designing eLearning experiences. 

by Christopher Pappas

April 14, 2016

Instructional Designers: An Understanding Of Social Learning Matters!

Social learning is not about learning together in a group, virtual or otherwise. It is about learning from one another’s behavior. And it is a vital part of all learning from childhood on.

by Alex Terego