A lot of people who work in training or learning and development either haven't heard of the term Instructional Design (ID) or really aren't very sure what it is. What is Instructional Design? ID is about "solving performance problems" according to Cathy Moore in her blog post about how to become an Instructional Designer. Christy Tucker says that... Continue Reading →
Live online learning: Resistance & ingredients to success – Summary from Charity Learning Commission September User Group Meeting
These are the summary notes of research and references from my recent speaking engagement at the Charity Learning Consortium User Group meeting on behalf of the Learning Performance Institute. "The issue is no longer whether or not online learning is or should occur, but rather how it is implemented" from An Exploratory Study Comparing... Continue Reading →
Action Mapping – summary from Learning Live
These are a few resources from my Learning Live 2014 breakout Inspire session for the Learning Performance Institute. Action Mapping is an approach for designers to identify the measurable performance outcomes a learner needs to perform on the job. Read more from creator Cathy Moore: http://blog.cathy-moore.com Examples in the Learning Live Inspire session were from Cathy's... Continue Reading →
Debunking the Learning Style
A few articles have dripped into my Twitter feed and Inbox recently around the lack of science to back up common learning theories and personality quizzes. The lack of rigorous scientific evidence, in my discussions with others, either doesn't surprise at all or is incomprehensible - with people often commenting “but that’s what I learnt... Continue Reading →
Facilitation – an introduction
In a previous blog post I started what I hope to be a discussion with you about instruction and facilitation in Learning and Development. In this post I want to start unpicking what facilitation means more broadly and what it means in a training arena and for online delivery. “Group facilitation”, writes Roger Schwarz, “is... Continue Reading →
Why we need to plan questions in the online classroom
In the online classroom, one of the biggest things to get used to is not being in the same room. This is both for the trainer/facilitator and attendees. Not being in the same place means we loose observation and reaction to body language and the human element of face to face. We can use video, but... Continue Reading →
Impressions from Virtual Learning Show 2013 day two – Julie Dirksen
Using game design to create approach-based learning Julie Dirksen is from Usable Learning and is an instructional designer. Julie is focusing on using game design in the learning environment, but emphasises that this doesn't have to be designing whole games. This really interested me as I know I'm not going to make some immersive video game... Continue Reading →
Virtual Learning Show 2013 – interview with Bianca Woods
Bianca Woods is an instructional designer and is on the panel for the second day of the Virtual Learning Show. I asked for some of her virtual thoughts… Bianca lives in Toronto, Canada and the VLS is hosted on UK time. “Ah, the joys of attending a virtual seminar located in a much different time zone!”... Continue Reading →
Impressions from The Virtual Learning Show #4
Design is everything: five techniques for designing an interactive virtual class Cindy Huggett had some great interaction from the beginning in the chat and with Cindy using polls and a separate chat window to understand our role and find out our burning questions. The five techniques for interactive virtual design: defining great design great openings... Continue Reading →