How to Get Instructional Design Experience to Build Your Portfolio by Kayleen Holt You need instructional design experience to get hired, but how do you get experience if you can’t get a job? In this post, I’ll share four ways to get work samples for… Read More »How to Get Instructional Design Experience to Build Your Portfolio
How to Become an Instructional Designer: The Ultimate Resource List by Kayleen Holt The following content and resources for how to become an instructional designer were written and curated by Kayleen Holt. Introduction Learning and development careers are booming. As more instructional designers enter the… Read More »How to Become an Instructional Designer: The Ultimate Resource List
In spite of the wealth of training resources readily available online, finding quality materials that are perfectly suited to the needs of your learners may be difficult. In fact, the best solution may be to create your own instructional materials! However, how can you design instructional materials that are specific and effective?
Chaka Jaliwa is an education specialist at Space Center Houston in Texas. Although his current position involves engaging K-12 students and teachers in science activities, his formal education is in electrical engineering. How did he get here, and how does he create learning experiences for students? Watch to find out!
By Billy Wilson During a recent interview [1], Elon Musk outlined his basic engineering process. The first step is: Make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It does not matter who gave them to you. It is particularly dangerous if a smart… Read More »Learner Stories for Subject Matter Experts
Have you ever been confused about the different job titles in the Learning and Development world? Instructional designer, learning experience designer, and user experience designer. What exactly are the differences among them? Mandy Lin is a graduate student in Human Computer Interaction.
Download the Merrill’s Principles of Instruction Infographic as a PNG or a PDF. Read our accompanying article on Merrill’s Principles of Instruction!
What is self-efficacy? Self-efficacy is the belief in yourself to achieve something. In learning, it is important for students to feel like they are capable of learning the material. In the late 1970s, Albert Bandura proposed that there are four sources of self-efficacy and four… Read More »Self-efficacy
M. David Merrill’s 2002 Principles of Instruction are five features he argues are key in creating effective instruction. By reviewing others’ instructional design theories and models, he determined common aspects that led to the best promotion of learning. Five Principles of Instructional Design by David… Read More »Refresher on Merrill’s Principles of Instruction
Donald Kirkpatrick’s model tackles how to approach the evaluation of training, typically in a corporate setting. The model was created in the 1950s and has since been updated with some small additions. The following diagram displays both the original and New World Kirkpatrick Model components… Read More »Kirkpatrick Model / The New World Kirkpatrick Model
Intro. In the 1960s, educational psychologist Robert Gagne created this sequential nine-step model to demonstrate each step of an effective learning process. By highlighting how instructors should approach teaching, he provided a framework to deliver instruction while taking into account a variety of learning conditions.… Read More »Robert Gagne: Nine Events of Instruction
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework to categorize learning objectives and has been used to inform teaching and instructional design work. The original Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, but the updated 2001 version by David Krathwohl and Lorin… Read More »Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Situation In February 2021, I was onboarded to create a technical user manual for the company, Oppti, whose primary product was an online platform connecting high school students to job, volunteer, and internship opportunities. The company had been selected as a Google Startup, and although… Read More »Oppti Case Study
Dr. Phil Winne presents “Learning Analytics for Self-Regulated Learning: Frameworks, Methods & Future Work” (moderated by Dr. Jason Chen and Dr. David Morris). Webinar hosted by APA Division 15 on September 30, 2020. Download Dr. Phil Winne’s slides. Summary: This is a scholarly presentation that… Read More »Learning Analytics for Self-Regulated Learning: Frameworks, Methods & Future Work
Designing a remote professional development course to support teacher customization in science. Summary: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, school instruction had to be conducted online and so did professional development courses for school teachers. This article reports on the design, implementation, and impact of a… Read More »Designing a remote professional development course to support teacher customization in science.
