Archive for Tag: instructional design

Embracing Risk Is the Secret to Dynamic Instructional Design

Embrace risk to energize your content. Are you eager to try a new instructional technology? Have you researched a fresh strategy to apply to your design? Is there a new approach you’re excited to explore to better engage learners?...

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Buddha and Instructional Design

Don’t worry, this is not an ethereal post about how meditation will solve your instructional design challenges (although…who knows, it might!). Buddha was actually a down-to-earth, excellent observer of human nature. And 2,500 years ago, he was helping people...

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Divergent Thinking in eLearning

Divergent thinking: creative, open-ended, spontaneous, unexpected, out of the box. With these unstructured descriptions of divergent thinking, how could this lend itself to eLearning instructional design? In his article titled “Divergent Thinking in eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know,”...

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Why Team-Based Learning Works in the Workplace

Even if you weren’t into science, the lab portion of class was usually interesting, memorable and fun. In teams of two or four, depending on the structure of the lab tables, you teamed up with a partner (or three)...

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Instructional Design: Learning the Lessons We Teach

Consistently, instructional designers are tasked with three objectives: 1) teach learners new information 2) reevaluate current knowledge 3) assess outcomes. When is that last time you turned that rubric on yourself? This is not a train-the-trainer moment – it...

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Use Effectance Motivation to Make Learners Hungry for More – Like a Shark!

By Guest Blogger: Rob Catalano, MA – Senior Learning Consultant at Bravo Wellness So how do you use effectance motivation to keep your learners’ skills up to date, without them getting bored? Well let me share my fish tail,...

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