Do You Tell Your Learner “You’re Doing it All Wrong!” to Teach the Right Way?

A lady demonstrates 2 or 3 ways of making grilled cheese sandwich and tells you “You’re Doing it All Wrong!” She finally teaches you the steps to make a cheese sandwich the right way. How would react to this? Would you relate to the things that you might be doing wrong and try to learn [...]

IDConnect – Quarterly Newsletter of Instructional Designers Community of India

Hello all, We had been working on the quarterly newsletter of Instructional Designers Community of India for sometime now and finally the newsletter – IDConnect has shaped up and got released today. Here is a copy for all the readers of this blog Hope you enjoy the newsletter. Click on the image to download

How Do You Learn to Write Effective Voice Scripts?

I am very fond of fairy tales. As a kid I had two big books of fairy tales and used to get excited thinking about the chocolate house as described in the Hansel and Gretel story and also used to imagine the wonderland,the woods and the castles. YouTube has lots of versions of these fairy [...]

Using Case Studies/Scenarios for New Application Training

When you have to get people to use a new product/application, there are definitely some challenges because the new product/application will bring a drastic change in the way they work.  If the orientation to the new product/application is not done properly, people will simply be confused and resist using the product/application, no matter how beneficial [...]

“T-Bites” Say Good Bye to You!

I have not been very active in the blogging sphere this month. Reason – My laptop was in the service center for more than 2 weeks. I really felt crippled. I am glad I have my laptop back now and am writing this post, which I was supposed to write on 12th September. If you [...]

Time to Eliminate Software Product Tutorials?

The software industry is loaded with help manuals and tutorials. It doesn’t matter how complex or easy the product is, a help manual or a tutorial is a must have. Why would someone need a help manual or a tutorial if the product is self-explanatory, obvious, easy to use? In fact why not build applications/products [...]

T-Bite: Examples of Augmented Reality Games

Some weeks back, I posted some videos on Augmented Reality that illustrated how this concept may be applied in real life. I found some interesting videos that showcase Augmented Reality Games. I thought they are worth sharing in the T-Bites section. So here are you go: VIDEO 1 ( via Tom Kuhlmann) VIDEO 2 VIDEO [...]

T-Bite: Top 10 Resources for Learning Professionals

There are umpteen web resources on Instructional Design, learning and training.  However there are very few blogs, networks and websites that give you really useful information. In this post, I would like to list those blogs and websites that provide learning professionals with lot of useful information absolutely free of cost. Here’s presenting TOP 10 [...]

Introduction to the Instructor Led Training ToolKit

I receive a lot of queries on how to design Instructor Led Training (ILT)  programs. Such queries most often come from professionals who have experience designing e-learning programs. In my opinion, if you have experience in designing e-learning programs, you can use the same skills to design ILTs  too. You do not need any unique [...]

T-Bite: Interesting Videos on Augmented Reality

In 1990, Boeing researcher Tom Caudell first coined the term “augmented reality” to describe a digital display used by aircraft electricians that blended virtual graphics onto a physical reality. As for the computer science world’s definition of augmented reality (AR) though, it’s more detailed, but essentially the same: Augmented reality is the interaction of superimposed [...]