Digital Exhaust: Making Your Work Work Twice
Most of us work from one deadline to the next, in an endless race to check tasks off our to-do lists and stay ahead...
Whenever we build a one-size-fits-all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized...
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
Most of us work from one deadline to the next, in an endless race to check tasks off our to-do lists and stay ahead...
When you’re working on a team, it’s usually assumed that you’ll all use the same software platforms so you can more easily share projects,...
http://pca.st/OYg6 After listening to this episode of the stellar Daily Tech News Show a while back, there was a discussion about “sponsored content”. They...
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in...
The Coronavirus quarantine has given all kinds of non-technical computer users a crash course in Zoom online meetings. This creates an opportunity for those...
Harnessing Turned-On Brains A live learning conference or training event can be a busy, chaotic, and stimulating setting for learning new things. Not only...
Whether you’re designing a presentation, an online course, or just updating your blog, your choice of images can add meaning to your message, or completely distract from it. At worst, poorly-chosen images can diminish your credibility, distract your audience, and even get you into legal trouble (!!!), so it’s important to choose images with care.
According to learner-centered instruction, the focus needs to be on what information you retain, the lasting insights you create, and the skills you are able to perform after the training event is over.
My process for creating animated motion graphics is unconventional but it has distinct advantages over the industry standard method of using Adobe AfterEffects or...
This is a pretty dense, fiber-full article about backward learning design by one of my instructional design heroes, Michael Feldstein. It introduces the concept of Backwards Design (part of Understanding by Design, which he also introduces). Most importantly, it makes the case that designing course strictly aligned with learning outcomes enables us to collect data programmatically, scalably, so we can make timely interventions that result in better student learning overall.