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Defining Instructional Design

January 4, 2023 By Learning Rebels Leave a Comment

Defining Insructional Design

What is Instructional Design? Many moons ago, I surveyed L&D people and asked them to self-identify their job role titles. This corresponded with a blog post I wrote about Instructional Design being dead. When all was said and done, there were … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Instructional Design, Learning Design

9 Planning Steps for Your Virtual Learning Program

March 19, 2020 By Shannon Tipton 7 Comments

(First posted on Linkedin) As the need for widespread social distancing increases, the need to move from traditional training to a virtual learning program is becoming more the norm. We know (or should know) that preparing for a virtual learning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learning Design, Methodology, Technology, Virtual Learning Tagged With: Instructional Design, virtual learning, virtual training, VLT, webinars

How to Ask Better Training Questions

October 9, 2018 By Shannon Tipton 7 Comments

The time has come to once again to discuss the art of, "How to ask better training questions." (This post ran originally on my blog site for Litmos in January 2018. The content here has been updated.) Picture this:  Director of Well-Meaning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Learning Design, Tips Tagged With: Business results, Instructional Design, training questions

Instructional Design is Not Dead!

March 23, 2017 By Shannon Tipton 13 Comments

Despite rumors to the contrary, Instructional Design is not dead.  You may have noticed the many articles and blog posts stating that instructional design is dead, and by extension, so is the role of Instructional Designer. I even saw this tweet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Learning Design, Learning Rebel Tagged With: Articulate, Design for how people learn, Giveaway, Instructional Design, ISD, Julie Dirkesen, Personal learning network, Picasso, status-quo, Steve Jobs

30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 21: Is it me?

August 3, 2016 By Shannon Tipton Leave a Comment

It's day 21 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge - Is It Me? Today was the last day of the Designing Learning Certification. My aha moment today came from one of the participants. I've written about this before, about how sometimes L&D people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 30 day challenge Tagged With: Blame, Context, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design

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