I was busy last two months and that’s one main reason, I have kept away from this blog. This month is better and I have been catching up with some of my friends and fellow Instructional Designers A short discussion with my fellow Instructional Designers on the state of Instructional Design/Instructional Designers in India prompted [...]
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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 [...] By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon Times are changing. Getting a job as a fresher is no longer so easy, I guess. At least that’s what the popular job portals in India tell me. I was checking some popular job portals and found that most employers require candidates [...] January 30, 2010 is going to be an eventful day. Instructional Designers across cities in India are going to meet in groups in their own city. This is going to be the first meeting organized by the Instructional Designers Community of India this year. More than 50 Instructional Designers have RSVPd for the meetup. This [...] I get surprised when I hear people buying virtual stuff. I always wonder why they do it and what kind of satisfaction they must be getting in buying things that they cannot touch and feel. Well, I realize I am not quite different from those people. I get so involved in playing Farmville and get [...] Consider this story: A girl who works in a call center wants to become an Instructional Designer. Her writing skills are average. However she has this strong urge to learn. She gets motivated by creative work. She is willing to put in lot of hard work. She finds Instructional Design interesting. She has gained some [...] Sometime back I had written a post on character driven stories for e-learning. This post talks about including emotions in e-learning that make a great impact on the audience. While strong emotions can make an impact, something light hearted can also make a great impact. I have always felt amazed at how some creative people come up [...] By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon In school I am sure all of us have go through reading comprehension exercises. I am not sure how many of us enjoyed it though All of us understand what Reading Comprehension means. The web definition of Reading Comprehension is the level of [...] by ruparajgo | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com Have you seen a kid take a toy apart and fix the toy together again? This might seem like a childish act of taking things apart just for fun. But then this childish act of taking things apart can also be a huge learning process. Here is [...] In India, there are very few training institutes or universities that offer certification courses in Instructional Design. When you look at the courses that these training institutes offer, all these courses follow the classical approach to teaching Instructional Design. In a classical approach, you start with the basic concepts, theories and then move on to [...] |
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