4 Critical Questions to Ask Your Instructional Designer

4 Critical Questions to Ask Your Instructional Designer

Have you worked with an instructional designer before? An instructional designer (ID) creates learning outcomes and builds activities that help learners master those outcomes in engaging ways. Schools, districts, and organizations can use instructional designers to...
5 Questions Every Instructional Designer Should Ask

5 Questions Every Instructional Designer Should Ask

Who is my audience? The audience you are writing for is very important. At any age or grade level, the learners want to know why they need to learn the material presented. The cognitive level of the learner is also important. Young learners need simple sentences and...
6 Things Every Instructional Designer Should Be Able to Do

6 Things Every Instructional Designer Should Be Able to Do

Understand the Best Practices of Teaching There are many models and methods of teaching available for instructional designers to use. Keeping up to date on the newest and best practices in teaching will help an instructional designer ensure that every learner at any...
6 Things Every Instructional Designer Should Know

6 Things Every Instructional Designer Should Know

Instructional designers have the most important role in the development of e-learning materials. The instructional designer creates the “face” of the content that is seen and interacted with by the learner. For the course to be effective, the instructional designer...
Current Trends in Instructional Design for Content Development

Current Trends in Instructional Design for Content Development

Today we are going to take a look at some current trends in instructional design that have been accelerating in recent years. As a starting point, the ability of learners to access information when it is needed, using browser-based resources, is driving many of the...
STEM Instructional Design for Greater Engagement

STEM Instructional Design for Greater Engagement

With advances in technology, we have increasing options for teaching STEM subjects, and also more avenues to share successful methods. STEM learning is great for building critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The challenge is how to engage the broad range of...