Most often when reviewing approaches to instructional design we think about elearning. How to best present things on a screen, how to break down content, how to make it interactive. There’s a pretty big body of literature that focuses on that (think Mayer et al.) and more often now I’m starting to encounter UX crossover […]
Category: Instructional Design
Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning Revisited, Again
Going back to 2020, when I did more elearning hero challenges without using Articulate products (the InArticulate eLearning Hero series), I touched on some examples of using tabs in elearning: Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning (2020) #272 Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning Revisited I have a current use case where I need to show users […]
How much to educational developers actually teach?
Sarah Silverman is an educational developer from the USA that I have kept more of an eye on in recent years since some of her original critiques of CTLs came across my feed. This post explores the role and challenges faced by educational developers in the context of their teaching responsibilities. Sarah reflects on an…
Three Things Your Ed Degree (possibly) Got Wrong
The Effortful Educator normally publishes content around retrieval practice, memory processing, spaced practice, etc. But recently, they published an intentionally provocative talk they gave at their school, Three Things Your Ed Degree (possibly) Got Wrong. I couldn’t resist reading or thinking about my own experience during my undergraduate program. Let’s see how the program I completed…
Thinking of Mountains and Streams
Bits and pieces of something about this have been in the back of my mind for too long, given I’m just sitting down to write about it today. In the landscape of ISD, occasionally, you’ll end up with a project that is an actual opportunity to look at skills and competency mapping. Sometimes this looks…
Bailing on Bloom
It’s been so long since I’ve blogged that I thought I couldn’t return without a splashy post. Well, that’s not quite the case, actually. This one has been rolling around in the back of my mind for a little while. If you’ve been around instructional designers, educational developers, a center for teaching and learning, or…
156 Ways to Improve Your Instructional Design
The field of instructional design has grown more complex, requiring modern designers to have expertise in various areas, from learning theory to emerging technologies like AI and AR. To help designers keep up, the Learning Guild community compiled an eBook with 156 practical tips and tricks from fellow professionals. The eBook covers strategies for managing…
It’s Dangerous to go Alone – Preparing Learners
I’ve been thinking about self-paced learning a bit more lately than usual, the things we make, and the tools we use to make them. I’m a big fan of the contributors to the webcomic The New ID and found this gem, Click Continue Comic Strip, again the other day. It got me thinking about a…
Creating a CPR in Veterinary Medicine Scenario in H5P
Through the end of 2022 I had the privilege of working with Jen Loewen on a branching scenario about CPR in veterinary medicine. This was a really cool project and a perfect example of an approach to instructional design that started with design & prototyping and used iterative feedback to dial in the design and…
Reclaiming ProComOER
I’ve worked as an instructional designer (or very adjacent roles) in higher education for over ten years. Over that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work on hundreds of courses and projects involving staff training, knowledge bases, tutorials, etc. When I look back on the projects I’ve worked on in that time, the ProComOER is…
On missing flash and hitting pages
I bumped into this post via Pat Lockely on Linkedin and it made me reflect on a couple of things, including kicking me into gear to write a bit about a project from last year I’ve been meaning to write about, so thanks Pat! I’m doing a lot of work in articulate 360 or storyline…
Post Once, Reply Twice… But Why?
This one is from the IDD Blog from the Center for Teaching and Learning at DePaul University. At some point–even prior to the start of COVID-19–most online instructors have relied on the ‘Post Once, Reply Twice’ formula for their online discussions. It is unclear where this formula originated, but like the Pot Roast Principle, there…