Finding the balance: E-Learning and Instructional Design in the ‘ Real’ World
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Finding the balance: E-Learning and Instructional Design in the ‘Real’ World
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Finding the balance: E-Learning and Instructional Design in the ‘ Real’ World. Diane Sudman Tarleton State University [email protected]. What Has Proven to be Most Helpful to Me Androgogy – adult learning theory Principles of multimedia design (Clark & Mayer) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Finding the balance: E-Learning and Instructional Design
in the ‘Real’ World
How I got here….B.S. Academic Studies (Elementary Education) Sam Houston State University, 1994
2nd grade teacher (7 yrs)
M.S Information SystemsTarleton State University, 2008
Helpdesk Technician K12 districtInstructional Technology Coord.
Course Developer / Faculty TrainerTarleton State University, Center for Instructional Innovation
E-Learning CertificateUTB, 2014
Diane SudmanTarleton State [email protected]
What Has Proven to be Most Helpful to Me
Androgogy – adult learning theory
Principles of multimedia design (Clark & Mayer)
The value of group collaboration and teamwork
Dr. Butler’s “permission” to fit the design to the audience
What I’ve learned about ID in the ‘real’ world:
If you build it, they will come --but they may not stay!
What I’ve learned about ID in the real world:
If you build it, they will come --but they may not stay!
Focus on ‘WIIFM’
What I’ve learned about ID in the real world:
If you build it, they will come --but they may not stay!
Focus on ‘WIIFM’
ID in real life is seldom prescriptive and sequential. It’s messy and unpredictable.
What I’ve learned about ID in the real world:
If you build it, they will come --but they may not stay!
Focus on ‘WIIFM’
Real life is seldom prescriptive and sequential. It’s messy and unpredictable.
Find your balance between what you know about ID and ‘appeasing the gods’
What I’ve learned about ID in the real world:
If you build it, they will come --but they may not stay!
Focus on ‘WIIFM’
Real life is seldom prescriptive and sequential. It’s messy and unpredictable.
Find your balance between what you know about ID and appeasing the gods
Always keep the end user in mind! The target is genuine learning or changed behavior, not an attractive product that ticks all the design boxes.
My advice to a new instructional designer….
Build your professional network.• Share advice and support with classmates and instructors now
and colleagues later• Online forums, conferences, webinars, etc. are great for building your network• Instructional designers are a generous, sharing, collaborative group!
Stay current on research, trends, and tools (i.e., ADDIE, Agile, SAM, gamification, badges). It’s a moving target!
“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you!” shared by Zig Ziglar
Keep learning!
http://elearnmag.acm.org/index.cfm
http://breakingintoid.com/
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
http://community.articulate.com/http://t
heelearningcoach.com/
http://www.elearningguild.com/index.cfm
http://breakingintoid.com/
I am still learning…. Michelangelo
http://www.slideshare.net/cammybean/simple-strategies-for-designing-more-effective-elearning
What I’m learning now (incidentally: the big topics at e-Learning Guild 2014)• Using stories to create engagement• The power of questions • How gamification can be used in higher-ed and e-Learning• How to build it so they WANT to stay• How to balance design theories, SME requests, boss’ directives, budget
(what budget?!), and time to come up with courses that make a difference and meet the deadlines!
Questions?
