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...
The Importance of Project Evaluation for Instructional Designers

The Importance of Project Evaluation for Instructional Designers

As an instructional designer you have carefully designed and developed useful content, engaging learning activities, and challenging assessment items for a project.  You have ensured that everything is well correlated to stated learning objectives and that they...
Where to Put the Ottoman

Where to Put the Ottoman

By Mona Meyer I’ll never forget the episode of “Cheers” when the rest of the gang teased Norm relentlessly about his interest in interior design. Finally, in an attempt to deflect attention from his hobby, Norm shrugs and says along the lines of, “I can’t help it....