Should You Add Background Audio to Your E-Learning Courses? » The Rapid eLearning Blog
"Instructional design is about crafting a learning environment to meet specific objectives. Nothing in your course should be accidental or haphazard. All elements that make up the course should be intentional. In that sense you need to ask if the...

Instructional Design: To Degree or not to Degree: http://digg.com/d31Bxm8?t

Online Education – Introducing the Microlecture Format — Open Education
The designer of the format, David Penrose, insists that in online education “tiny bursts can teach just as well as traditional lectures when paired with assignments and discussions.” The microlecture format begins with a podcast that introduces a few...

Kapp Notes: Accidental Instructional Designers May Want to Just Say No
Karl Kapp revisits the value of instructional design degrees, arguing that people who accidentally find themselves in the field should decline to develop learning until they've been trained. Karl also identifies what he feels is the most important...

From the E-Learning Curve Blog Archive: Aligning Learning Theory with Instructional Design - Click here for more - http://url.ie/3ejz

Madeline Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
she simplified and popularized gagne's nine events

An Introduction to the Nine Events of Instruction theory
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-learningguru.com%2Farticles%2Fart3_3.htm

@cammybean Absolutely! How many people even know what Instructional Design is and that there are degree programs.

Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning » Making Change
A great slideshow showing (not just explaining!) the value of scenarios to change behavior in e-learning

Learning Visions: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09
Notes on a DevLearn session on how people got into instructional design and what they feel are the important skills. Out of 25 IDs, only 2 had advanced degrees in ID.

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Company focusing on custom built software application training

My conversation with academics
A 2007 post from the Learning Circuits blog about different views of the value of theories, research, and results in academia and corporate environments. Definitely takes the anti-academic POV. I like Mitch Owen's response in the comments:...

The E-Learning Curve Blog - from the Archive - Discovering Instructional Design, Part 1 - click here for more - http://bit.ly/10BwVr

Big Dog, Little Dog: Designing for Agile Learning
Part of a series on agile learning design. This post focuses on 4 lenses for design: performance centered, guru, learner-centered, and system. These lenses are then mapped to the complexity of the design environment and sources of information in those...

Joe Deegan, Instructional Design/eLearning Dev, SCORM Hater #lrnchat

Cognitive Load Theory: Failure? « EdTechDev
Explanation of cognitive load theory and the problems with it, both conceptual and methodological. Lots of sources to dig into deeper if you want more research on this issue. Annotated link...

eLearning Tools Home - eLearning Tools
wiki with many tools listed. Some no longer available.

Academic Impressions -- Higher Ed Impact: Weekly Analysis
Patricia McGee, associate professor of instructional technology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, offers some practical tips on training faculty for the integration of interactive learning technologies into the classroom.

How do you eat an elephant? Agile instructional design | Blair Rorani http://ow.ly/Cwoj

Do we still care about instructional design? http://tinyurl.com/mcf2jx

10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer : The eLearning Coach
Brief discussion about whether instructional designers need degrees, followed by a list of qualities for successful instructional designers like "Be obsessed with learning everything."