Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning » Making Change
"The presentation is an adaptation of a talk I’ve been giving at the Australian Flexible Learning Framework conferences. It’s designed to help people break free of the traditional information-first approach to instructional design.One of the...

Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning » Making Change
Imagine that you’re in a competition to overhaul an information-heavy course so it creates a real change in the world. What changes would you make? Check out this story-based presentation to see what one fictional company did.How TO Save The World...

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

Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning
Imagine that you’re in a competition to overhaul an information-heavy course so it creates a real change in the world. What changes would you make? Check out this story-based presentation to see what one fictional company did.How to save the world...

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."

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国外教学设计相关站点，资源

@ziggibyte I got an Instructional Design Job, it's was my major in College

Heading out to a job interview today in downtown Cleveland, for an Instructional Design position. My IDT degree will finally pay off now!

Volunteer Opportunity to Build Your eLearning Portfolio | onehundredfortywords
Info on an organization looking for volunteer instructional designers/developers to create content for job seekers. They are OK with content being used in a portfolio, so this is a good place to gain some experience and get something to show for a...

The eLearning Coach » Blog Archive » User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated
Tips and simple examples for user interface design. The elevator example is perhaps not the best metaphor for structuring learning, but the concept is good.