Instructional Design saw its rapid growth only during World War II though it existed as early as 1905. As mentioned in Wikipedia much of the foundation of the field of instructional design was laid in World War II, when the U.S. military faced the need to rapidly train large numbers of people to perform complex [...]
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By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon Though Instructional Design is a fast growing field, I still come across people who do understand what Instructional Design is about. Technical Writing is much better known than Instructional Design in India. I am not sure how it is in the rest [...] I found this interesting webinar on using puzzles in training. In this webinar, Thiagi and Tracy introduce different kinds of puzzles and their application in training. To access the webinar, click on the screeenshot below. Hope you enjoy the webinar as much as I did. In organizations, when groups of people are working on a project, how they effectively collaborate and support each other is very critical to the success of the project. Let us consider an example of how collaboration might occur in an organization. A team of 4 people are working on a report which includes one writer [...] Last year during March 1st week, Writers Gateway had kick started its Game of the Week series. A lot of people appreciated and enjoyed the games posted in this blog. The series went on for 8 months and it came to an end after that. I wanted to continue posting games atleast on a monthly [...] Can gamers change the world? How about designing world saving games? Jane Mcgonigal says no one wants to change the world just because it is good or because they are supposed to. But if you immerse them in an epic adventure and say “We have run out of oil” . Here is a challenge for [...] Last weekend, we had an interesting online session for the members of Instructional Designers Community of India. During the session, Abhijit Patronobis of Monad Interactive demonstrated an e-learning module on music called Anandadhara. It was a very engaging session and it was interesting to see how music was taught to people using an asynchronous blended [...] How do you train someone to become a great manager? How easy or difficult is to train someone on leadership skills? Are classroom training programs or online training programs on leadership skills enough? A great leader never gets manufactured in a classroom. Why? Because leadership has lot got to do with behavioral and attitude change and this [...] Hello All, Today I complete 3 years of blogging and it really means a lot to me. This blog now has 222 posts, close to 600 comments and nearly 200 feed readers. I have got some really nice feedback on my posts and my blog. Thanks to all of you who helped me reach this [...] |
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