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Learner Empathy Can Save Your Course Design
Where do you start with instructional design? Sifting through folders of content? Meeting with SMEs to capture what they think is essential to the ...
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Make a Learning Love Connection: 5 FACTS for Better e-Learning Courses
What is love, really? (Sorry in advance for any earworms!) We can love our cars, homes, and flat-screen TVs, but purists will tell you, “You can’t ...
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3 Instructional Design Strategies for SMART Change
The goal of instructional design is to bring about behavioral change. After all, we don’t train people to do things the way they’ve always done them. ...
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Moving to Mobile Learning: Three MLearning Design Mistakes
By Ann Iverson, Senior Instructional Designer What was the last thing you learned on your phone? A new cooking technique? How to write better emails? ...
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ID Essentials: Three Steps When There’s Too Much Content for One Course
By Ann Iverson, Senior Instructional Designer In last month’s ID Essentials blog, we were instructional designers at World of Wings, Inc., a ...
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ID Essentials: Four Simple Steps to Unpack Objectives
By Ann Iverson, Senior Instructional Designer Congratulations on starting your career with World of Wings, Inc.! Your onboarding begins now. As an ...
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The Magic of Starting from Scratch: Five Ways to Optimize Learning Design ...
By Ann Iverson, Instructional Designer Have you baked a cake lately? If so—and be honest—did you use the box, or did you make it from scratch? It’s ...
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3 Ways to Design e-Learning for the Modern Learner
By Ann Iverson, Instructional Designer A recent study from Microsoft Corporation shows that the average attention span for humans has dropped from 12 ...
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5 Ways to Tap into Metaphors for Better E-learning Courses
By Ann Iverson, Instructional Designer You’ve been asked to design an e-learning course on the topic of risk management. You want to include an ...
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The SCORM Guide for Instructional Designers
by Ann Iverson, instructional designer | @iverson_ann If you’re like me, you have a basic understanding of the technical side of what we do. You try ...
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Make a Learning Love Connection: Five FACTS for Better e-Learning Courses
by Ann Iverson, instructional designer | @iverson_ann What is love, really? We can love our cars, homes, and flat-screen TVs, but purists will tell ...
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Four Questions that Shift You into Design Success
by Ann Iverson, instructional designer | @iverson_ann “Question everything!”- Albert Einstein As an instructional designer, I think the most ...