Next-Level Instructional Design
Next-Level Instructional Design

Author: Susan Nelson Spencer

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1801811199

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Develop the four key competencies essential for a successful career in instructional design with this practical guide Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Grow your core competencies for a well-paying, flexible, and rewarding career in instructional design Discover expert tips on the key competencies needed to be successful in this field Learn practical tips for day-to-day learning projects through real-world ID case studies Book Description The field of instructional design offers a rapidly growing, flexible, and rewarding career path. Chances are that if you're a teacher creating training material, college professor designing educational courses, human resources professional creating learning content, or even a graphic designer curating content, you may already be engaging in instructional designing without even realizing it! This book teaches you all about the four capabilities that are most important to exceling as an instructional designer—teaching, writing, creating, and analyzing. The chapters are designed in a way that provides you with practical tips for day-to-day learning projects through true ID stories. You'll get familiar with common misconceptions surrounding the field, along with how to overcome your shortcomings. With the help of easy-to-understand real-world case studies and practical tips, each chapter focuses on developing one particular competency to help you grasp the concepts with ease. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a comprehensive understanding of the key competencies needed to succeed in this field and their importance, and learned how to develop them effectively. What you will learn Explore the four key competencies in detail—teaching, writing, creating, and analyzing Understand the importance of building upon all four key competencies of an effective instructional designer Develop and grow each competency through helpful and practical tips, not just theory See what really happens in the “real world” of instructional design through myth busters Discover common pitfalls and mistakes made by almost every instructional designer Recognize practical teachable moments derived from real-world case studies Who this book is for The book is for professionals working in a learning capacity who want to upskill, as well as for self-starters looking to design better learning experiences. This book will show educators, teachers, corporate trainers, and human resources professionals best practices to create learning content using their existing skills. Formal education in the field of instructional design is not needed; the book is rather designed for those who do not have the time or inclination to pursue such a professional qualification.

Real World Instructional Design
Real World Instructional Design

Author: Katherine Cennamo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1351362240

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An ideal textbook for instructional designers in training, Real World Instructional Design emphasizes the collaborative, iterative nature of instructional design. Positing instructional design as a process of simultaneous rather than sequential tasks with learner-centered outcomes, this volume engages with the essential building blocks of systematically designed instruction: learner needs and characteristics, goals and objectives, instructional activities, assessments, and formative evaluations. Key features include a Designer’s Toolkit that includes tips and approaches that practitioners use in their work; vignettes and narrative case studies that illustrate the complexities and iterative nature of instructional design; and forms, templates, and questionnaires to support students in applying the chapter content. With updated examples, this streamlined second edition presents a timeless approach to instructional design.

Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory
Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory

Author: Charles M. Reigeluth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1351117521

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Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory brings together the innovations of two previously divided processes — learning design strategies/theories and instructional systems development — into a new introductory textbook. Using a holistic rather than fragmented approach that includes top-level, mid-level, and lower-level design, this book provides guidance for major topics such as non-instructional interventions, just-in-time analysis, rapid-prototype approaches, and learner-centered, project-based, anytime-anywhere instruction. Informed by the authors’ considerable experience and leadership throughout dramatic shifts in today’s learning landscape, this book offers the next generation of instructional designers a fresh perspective that synthesizes and pushes beyond the basics of design and development.

Project Management Skills for Instructional Designers
Project Management Skills for Instructional Designers

Author: M. T. Cox Dorcas M. T. Cox

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1440193630

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This book exposes the reader to a comprehensive overview of instructional design using the Instructional Systems Design (ISD or ADDIE) model and project management techniques based on the framework and standards of the Project Management Institute and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide best practices. Throughout the book, ADDIE and project management are united in a "four-step combo." Readers are taught to groove two disciplines to one beat. Project Management Skills for Instructional Designers is intended to captivate the interest of the following audience: instructional designers, training managers and directors, training consultants, human resources managers, performance consultants, and project managers. This practical guide uses the creative approach of storytelling to present the content in a way that is realistic and sequential to the way an instructional designer may work. A case scenario where an instructional designer is given a mandate by the boss to design, develop, and deliver automated sales management training is the story line around which the two disciplines are applied in the "four-step combo."

Design for how People Learn
Design for how People Learn

Author: Julie Dirksen

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0321768434

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Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching, even when it's not in our job descriptions. Whether it's giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people. But if you've ever fallen asleep over a boring textbook, or fast-forwarded through a tedious e-learning exercise, you know that creating a great learning experience is harder than it seems. In Design For How People Learn, you'll discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you're sharing. Using accessible visual metaphors and concrete methods and examples, Design For How People Learn will teach you how to leverage the fundamental concepts of instructional design both to improve your own learning and to engage your audience.

Instructional Design for Elearning
Instructional Design for Elearning

Author: Marina Arshavskiy

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781978217850

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This Instructional Design for ELearning handbook has been updated with the latest design principles and case studies. Fully revised with both new and updated chapters, Instructional Design for eLearning: Essential Guide for Designing Successful eLearning courses is your step-by-step, go-to reference for eLearning design and development. In this book, Marina Arshavskiy presents all the practical information in one place. This second edition includes even more content, examples, case studies, practice exercises, and assessments. You will also find checklists and templates you can immediately apply to your course design. What's new: - Technical Training - eLearning copyright information - New chapter about Agile ELearning design and development - New information about personalized and augmented learning approaches - New and up-to-date information about eLearning tools - Assessments after each chapter - New tables and templates - Case studies that illustrate eLearning concepts in each chapter

Instructional Story Design
Instructional Story Design

Author: Rance Greene

Publisher: Association for Talent Development

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1950496600

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Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a good story. Stories are memorable, actionable, and emotional. We are constantly making sense of the world by forming stories, and that makes them perfect for instructional design. Instructional Story Design is a practical guide to writing and developing stories for training. It takes what you already know about a story’s power to connect with people and offers a clear methodology for the otherwise daunting process of creating a compelling story. Master story designer Rance Greene shares his powerful yet familiar process to discover, design, and deliver instructional stories. He presents the two essential elements that must be present to tell a story for training: relatable characters and strong conflict. These elements create a desire for resolution and grab learners’ attention. This book offers advice for unearthing the root of the performance problem, creating action lists for learners, and convincing stakeholders about the effectiveness of stories. Case studies from household companies such as Pizza Hut, Southwest Airlines, and PepsiCo show story design in action. Job aids and resources include an audience profile questionnaire, character description worksheet, storyboard template, and tips for developing stories using graphics, audio, and video. With this book, you’ll: Sharpen your analysis skills to discover potential training stories. Design relatable stories that concretely connect with learning objectives. Easily develop captivating stories with tools you already own. Plan your next steps to implement your instructional story.

e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction

Author: Ruth C. Clark

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1119158680

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The essential e-learning design manual, updated with the latest research, design principles, and examples e-Learning and the Science of Instruction is the ultimate handbook for evidence-based e-learning design. Since the first edition of this book, e-learning has grown to account for at least 40% of all training delivery media. However, digital courses often fail to reach their potential for learning effectiveness and efficiency. This guide provides research-based guidelines on how best to present content with text, graphics, and audio as well as the conditions under which those guidelines are most effective. This updated fourth edition describes the guidelines, psychology, and applications for ways to improve learning through personalization techniques, coherence, animations, and a new chapter on evidence-based game design. The chapter on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning introduces three forms of cognitive load which are revisited throughout each chapter as the psychological basis for chapter principles. A new chapter on engagement in learning lays the groundwork for in-depth reviews of how to leverage worked examples, practice, online collaboration, and learner control to optimize learning. The updated instructor's materials include a syllabus, assignments, storyboard projects, and test items that you can adapt to your own course schedule and students. Co-authored by the most productive instructional research scientist in the world, Dr. Richard E. Mayer, this book distills copious e-learning research into a practical manual for improving learning through optimal design and delivery. Get up to date on the latest e-learning research Adopt best practices for communicating information effectively Use evidence-based techniques to engage your learners Replace popular instructional ideas, such as learning styles with evidence-based guidelines Apply evidence-based design techniques to optimize learning games e-Learning continues to grow as an alternative or adjunct to the classroom, and correspondingly, has become a focus among researchers in learning-related fields. New findings from research laboratories can inform the design and development of e-learning. However, much of this research published in technical journals is inaccessible to those who actually design e-learning material. By collecting the latest evidence into a single volume and translating the theoretical into the practical, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction has become an essential resource for consumers and designers of multimedia learning.

Understanding by Design
Understanding by Design

Author: Grant P. Wiggins

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1416600353

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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV

Author: Charles M. Reigeluth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1317747658

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Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education, as well as a clear indication of how different theories and models interrelate. Significant changes have occurred in learning and instructional theory since the publication of Volume III, including advances in brain-based learning, learning sciences, information technologies, internet-based communication, a concern for customizing the student experience to maximize effectiveness, and scaling instructional environments to maximize efficiency. In order to complement the themes of Volume I (commonality and complementarity among theories of instruction), Volume II (diversity of theories) and Volume III (building a common knowledge base), the theme of Volume IV is shifting the paradigm of instruction from teacher-centered to learner-centered and integrating design theories of instruction, assessment, and curriculum. Chapters in Volume IV are collected into three primary sections: a comprehensive view of the learner-centered paradigm of education and training, elaborations on parts of that view for a variety of K-12 and higher education settings, and theories that address ways to move toward the learner-centered paradigm within the teacher-centered paradigm. Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV is an essential book for anyone interested in exploring more powerful ways of fostering human learning and development and thinking creatively about ways to best meet the needs of learners in all kinds of learning contexts.