How Reverse Engineering Helps You Gain Instructional Design Skills Faster

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 someone who [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Category: Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, Learning | 2 comments

A “Hello World” Approach to Teaching Instructional Design

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 [...]

October 3rd, 2009 | Category: Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, Instructional Designing Training, Learning | 15 comments

How to Achieve Smooth Visual Effects in Videos Created Using Camtasia?

My post on how to increase call out lengths in Camtasia helped Tina Williams solve her problem. This feedback on my post prompted me to write this post with yet another useful tip
When I was working on my tutorial videos using Camtasia, I noticed that after I produced the video in a shareable [...]

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Camtasia Tips, Learning, Rapid E-learning, elearning | 4 comments

Free Session on Learner Centric Methodology Used in E-learning on September 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM IST

The Instructional Designers Community of India  is hosting yet another free  learning session on September 19, 2009.
This time the session is about Learner Centric Methodology used in E-learning. The session coverage would be:
1. What is LCM?
2. How does LCM help design effective learning?
3. What are the key principles of LCM?
4. How does LCM benefit stakeholders?
5. A case [...]

September 17th, 2009 | Category: ID Community of India, ID Meet Up, Informal Learning, Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, Learning, elearning | One comment

Top 4 Things That You Can Do to Get Started with Instructional Design

If you are an aspiring instructional designer, start thinking about instructional designing right now. Times are changing. Just like how a 2 year old kid is expected to know alphabets, some words and quite a few rhymes before he or she joins school, an aspiring instructional designer must have some basic idea about instructional designing [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Category: Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, Instructional Designing Training, Learning, Learning Tools, Learning Trends, Learning at Work, networking | 9 comments

Have You Thought of Character Driven Stories for Your E-learning?

I am sure you have seen or heard of Avatars in e-learning courses.  Avataars are characters used in e-learning as a substitute for a coach or an instructor. Avataars are usually used in e-learning to engage and guide the learners. Avataars could be static images of characters or animated characters. You also have virtual avataars these days [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Category: Avataar, Character Driven Story, Instructional Design, Instructional Strategy, Learning, Second Life | 5 comments

Reflections on Abhinava’s LH Theory

The Instructional Designers Meetup organized by Instructional Desginers Community of India (IDCI) happened on August 22, 2009. Abhinava presented his own theory called the LH theory in public for the first time. IDCI is very happy and proud to have hosted such a thought provoking session.
If you are wondering what is LH theory, please refer to the slides of [...]

August 24th, 2009 | Category: ID Community of India, ID Meet Up, Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, LH theory, Learning | Leave a comment

5th Instructional Designers Meetup on August 22, 2009

The Instructional Designers Community of India is organizing the 5th meetup on August 22, 2009.
The venue is Adobe office, Salarpuria Infinity, 3rd Floor, #5, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560029
The time duration of the meetup will be 11 am to 1 pm.
There is going to be an interesting session on Learning Philosophy- How to make learning solutions that [...]

August 20th, 2009 | Category: Instructional Designers, Learning | Leave a comment

Meta-Learning?

Meta-learning is being defined as “learning about learning”. It implies manging your own learning.
Learning does not happen intermittently these days.Learning is part and parcel of every day life.
You are compelled to manage your own learning especially now when corporate houses are hesitating to invest any money in  training.
I came across another definition of meta-learning which [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Category: Learning, Learning Tools, Meta-Learning | 2 comments

Do you think Instructional Designers Must be Tech Savvy?

by ruparajgo | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com
I started a discussion in the Linkedin group of the Instructional Designers Community of India and the response has been very good so far.
Here is what I think on the topic of discussion:
Today Instructional Designers need to have good knowledge about technology to do well in their [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Category: Discussion Forum, Instructional Design, Instructional Designers, Learning, Tech Savvy | One comment
 
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