In this Instructional Design Blog, we’ll focus on enabling our readers and visitors with the Instructional Design best practices that we’ve learned across enterprise projects.

 

We pride ourselves on applying logic to traditional Instructional Design approaches. While the traditional approaches and strategies provide a framework, they cannot be considered as templates. Here is our blog dedicated to Instructional Designing where we’ll share some tips around making the courses better for the modern training environment. This Instructional Design Blog will have minimal selling, and maximum enablement for its readers. If you like this Instructional Design Blog, please do spread the word as we’re a small company with limited marketing budgets.

Slide Sorter = Flow Sorter

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Typically, we use the Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint to move, delete, or copy slides. Well, that's what its function is. However, the Slide Sorter view has another implicit function for us as Instructional Designers – it’s an amazing tool to review the course flow....

Going Analog in Digital Age

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~ Aldous Huxley Here is a simplistic view of the way we typically start a project: Get an email from client/manager with project details Use the needs analysis conducted by a...

Pin-Up Resource: Gagne’s Nine Events of Instructions

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Gagne's Nine Events of Instructions has been recognized as one of the most popular Instructional Design theories for several years now. Very few Instructional Design theories have achieved the same recognition and adoption as Gagne's Nine Events of Instructions. For...

Movies and eLearning: Part Two

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This post continues from the Part One post on Movies and Elearning. Duration How it happens in movies: Along with the script’s quality, the duration of a movie also influences the audience experience, significantly. Recall the experience from a movie in which you...

What Can Instructional Designers Learn from Movies?

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What Can Instructional Designers Learn from Movies? Wait a minute! Is this a discourse on movies or elearning? Well, it’s the latter – being learning professionals, we can’t overlook one of the most prevalent, but not so literal, medium of learning – the Movies. But,...

Simplicity in Course Design

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A training is defined as successful only if it meets the learning objectives. Whereas, the objectives of an effective training are based on a robust and in-depth needs analysis. The needs and the derived objectives collectively influence your course design, which...