If You Want Microlearning, Think About Learning Objectives
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
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...
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
I was struck when I joined the world of corporate training about how widespread the use of interactive PDFs was as an eLearning tool...
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.
I recently started planning a three-day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active learning experiences, with the...
The open source writing tool Twine bills itself as an “Interactive Fiction” authoring program – a way for people to make text-based choose-your-own-adventure games...
Over the years I’ve been exploring Markdown as a content development tool, I’ve tried most of the Markdown editors available for Mac and Windows....