Should You Customize Your Learning Design for the Digital Natives?

I just read Prof Karl Kapp’s wonderful response to the Big Question: Learning design differences for Digital Natives? I liked his definitions of a Digital Native and Digital Immigrant. As he puts it, a Digital Native is someone who has grown up with technology and a Digital Immigrant is someone who has had to adapt [...]

10 Sure-Fire Tips to Becoming a Rapid E-learning Pro…Rapidly!

I keep posting Tom Kuhlmann‘s articles in this blog even when I have no specific comments to give on his article. This is because I want all the information he shares to be in my blog so that all my fellow Instructional Designers can read his articles and of course I want to bookmark his articles for my reference. This time Tom has written [...]

Creating Custom Images for Your E-learning

I make it a point to use images in my Storyboard though I don’t have to. I say I do not have to create or use images in my Storyboard because, in India, Instructional Designers are not necessarily Graphic Artists. Instructional Designers in India, do not necessarily digitize the course. Not all Instructional Designers know [...]

How to Build E-learning Scenarios?

Learners usually receive scenario based courses very well because these courses are not only engaging but also highly relevant. Tom Kuhlmann has a really useful post in his blog that teaches you how to sytematically build scenarios for your e-learning courses using Power Point. Thanks to Tom for sharing such useful information.

Do Classroom Trainings Need a Revamp?

I had been to Bangalore for a three day classroom training. This training was meant to teach Information Developers how to work with a documentation management system. Basically the training was about how to create new documents, how to edit, how to apply formatting styles and how to check in and check out the documents [...]

Learn Cooking Through Games!

I love exploring all kinds of web on the game. Recently I have got addicted to playing cooking games. Surprised uh? Yes, I am addicted to playing virtual cooking games. I see an instructional value in these games. In fact such cooking games are used to train chefs too. I recently read an article which [...]

What We Can Learn About Instructional Design from Post-It Notes – An Interesting Read

Tom Kuhlmann has again come up with an interesting post. This time it is on Cheat Sheets. Some days back I had written a post on Cheat Sheets too. I love creating Cheat Sheets. They are simple, easy to create and too useful. I create Cheat Sheets in XML format. Here is a sample template. [...]

Do SMEs hijack E-learning Projects Sometimes?

I just read an interesting post by Cathy Moore and found it worth sharing it with the readers of my blog. Cathy raises some really important questions with respect to the role of SMEs in an e-learning project and how they want the content they send to be put as it is in the e-learning [...]

Here’s How to Avoid Needs Analysis Paralysis – Interesting Post

Tom Kuhlmann has a really good post in his blog where he has put together some good points about Needs Analysis in e-learning. I totally agree with Tom when he says create courses where the content is real to the learners. But how do we create such courses when you do not get a chance [...]

The Value of Instructional Designers – Interesting Post by Cammy Bean

I just read this interesting post by Cammy Bean. She has started off a good discussion in this post of hers. I request all Instructional Designers to participate in the discussion and make it more interesting