What does it take to become an instructional design master?
Becoming an expert may not be the ambition of everyone, but let’s agree, you’d rather be good than bad at what you do; better, not worse.
That said, how can instructional designers improve their skills? How can someone excel without playing the corporate ladder waiting game?
How can you not only get noticed, but looked upon as someone who delivers the “goods”?
In this short video, I answer those who email and message me looking for advice.
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Feedback. Are you providing enough?
Feedback is one of those topics instructors, trainers, and coaches often say they’re providing enough of. But are they guiding students along, or dumping an evaluation on them at the end of a course?
Feedback needs to be provided at a time (in the learning cycle) to allow learners to improve their performance BEFORE future assessments.
This takes a little bit more work to incorporate upfront, but if you don’t want to put in the work, why put out a course in the first place?
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In this video I take you through a sales training case study, (hoping) to illustrate how we can develop courses that meet expectations.
The problem I see is, we expect too much from what we produce. And we can be too optimistic about the kinds of “benefits” our learner will get.
We should be thinking about, “What are the most important skills we want our learners to walk away with.” Also, are our assessments allowing us to measure those skills?
So let’s review a sample course, and see what we can do to get back to reality!
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Last week, we launched Brokencoworker.com – an interactive office harassment training site; accessible and sharable to the public.
In this post, I want to discuss a few of the project decisions that went into the site, the difficult stuff – less about software, more about process (and momentum).
This project was creative and fun to do. Keep in mind, not all projects are like this, but reading this post will give you a look into the thinking that goes into our development. And maybe you can apply some of our techniques.
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If you teach online (webinar, virtual classroom, etc.) you REALLY need to watch this video.
You will take away four tips on how to make your session super successful (Hint: It’s ALL attitude).
The tips are based on my experiences with applications such as Elluminate, WebEx, Skype, GoToMeeting and others, so they can be applied to any platform.
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