How do instructional designers know it’s high time to turn to agile?The ADDIE model has ruled the e-learning course development field for over 40 years. It’s been the key framework for instructional designers for a while, and yet it’s now giving...
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Microlearning holds a great deal of appeal in today’s fast paced corporate training world, where convenience in terms of time, ease of access, and precision of information, is of the utmost importance.
Online training organizations are in trouble. With more competition entering the marketplace, it’s now harder than ever to sell courses. The only way to remain competitive (without reducing prices) is to find ways to differentiate your online training.
The buzz around microlearning, social learning, personalization and other training trends has opened up to opportunities to rethink our approach to curriculum design. The good news is the core principles of learning design remain solid among new...
It’s no secret that as instructional designers we are often curious how the work we create is received. Have our endeavors succeeded in creating good onboarding, enabled a sales executive, or helped a company avoid costly compliance transgressions?
The magic of cinema is timeless. The whiff of salt and buttered popcorn in the air, the bubbling soft drink as you prepare for your journey into another reality, these are some of the experiences we can never quite replicate in our living rooms.
Gamification and gamified elements have been a hot topic for the last year or two.
When one hears the word "robot," the reaction frequently is one of either concern or amusement - concern because of movies like “The Terminator” and “I, Robot,” where machines decide it’s time for their makers to go, and amusement because of...
Imagine a typical course on a technical topic: Learners enter the room; sit for hours passively listening to an instructor slog through a slide-heavy, text-heavy, lecture-based course; then walk out with their heads spinning. It doesn’t have to be this...