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Check out our latest blog written by our Senior Instructional Designer, Gillian McLean: "Learning Outcomes: Your Roadmap to Success in Instructional Design." Click the link below to read more! 👀 The image is a promotional banner for a new blog post. At the top, it says "NEW BLOG" in bold white letters on a teal background. Below, there is a photo of a young woman with blonde hair, wearing a white sweater with black stripes, writing in a notebook at a kitchen table with a tablet in front of her. Under the photo, a text box reads: "Learning Outcomes: Your Roadmap to Success in Instructional Design." Below that, it says, "Written by: Gillian McLean," with a pink pencil icon. The background is black, with a small yellow line in the bottom right corner. #newblogpost #learningoutcomes #instructionaldesign #education #learning #knowledgenow #elearning #visualthinkers #learningdesign #accessiblelearning #inclusivelearning #innovativelearning #transformativelearning #teachers #transformative #accessibility #inclusion #equity #accessibilityMatters #inclusion #digitalequity

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Discover how you can deliver the best possible learning outcomes for your learners with these key strategies for instructional design. 🔑 Check it out: https://bit.ly/3uSOaAo

Some top tips from Articulate on how understanding instructional design can help you to create effective eLearning ✨

These are good tips and reminders for those of us who create learning courses.

Learner-centered instructional design is much more than just a buzzword! In this blog post, I explore the benefits of learner-centered instructional design and share some ways you can implement it in your design process. #instructionaldesign

How Instructional Design Makes Learning Purposeful A riddle I posed to students sparked lively debate: "If we learn daily through experience, why design instruction?" Some argued learning happens naturally. But here's what we concluded - directed learning is needed to achieve goals. Non-directed learning is hit-and-miss. We absorb culture casually. But as designers, we sculpt experiences purposefully. We make efficiency our aim and effectiveness our measure. Instructional designers curate environments where learners thrive. Through engagement, analysis and iteration we cultivate understanding aligned with objectives. Our methods eliminate guesswork, guiding discovery along focused pathways. This focused approach transforms random acts of learning into strategic accomplishments. Skills are built. Careers are advanced. Impact expands. And all because learning is no longer left to chance, but placed in capable hands who know how to unlock any mind's potential. Did this discussion ignite new perspectives? How else can instructional design maximize what's learned from any lesson? Your takeaways could help others achieve more.🤔

Instructional design can feel weird sometimes. People make assumptions and you might feel like the "middle man". 🙃 You might feel a lot of uncertainty about what makes GOOD training. 🤝 So let me remind you- You aren't the middle man, but a connector. Being a CONNECTOR is VITAL. 🏥 🕵♂️ First, you meet with stakeholders and gather information about what they need. Then you translate that into strong training approaches and assets. Next, you give those tools to facilitators with both the analyzed needs AND the rationale for the training choices. 🎁 📦 Good training isn't just repurposing information and putting it into a slide deck. Good training isn't just reading at learners or presenting information with a dynamic tone of voice. 📖 🖥 Good training isn't just taking written content and putting it into a self-paced page-turner. 🎓 Instructional design is about crafting EFFECTIVE training, built for application and retention. It's about taking all that content and creating real-world situations that the learner can put themselves in. 👩🏫 👩💻 It's about developing creative ways for the learners to ENGAGE with the content because that is where REAL LEARNING happens. 🗺 It's about delivering a complete learning experience that is clearly mapped and aligned from beginning to end. From needs to goals to actions. With clear learning objectives, content that develops actions, and performance-based practice and assessment. This is what we do as instructional designers. We bring the best practices of adult learning theory and we design and develop ways to deliver training that will have results! Remember your worth! #transitionedteacher #learninganddevelopment #instructionaldesign #adultlearning

Need a quick reference for instructional design? If you're working on an online course or program or updating a class, start with instructional design basics. It's a systemic approach to analyzing data, listening to stakeholder needs, and then creating an action plan for an engaging learning experience. Check out the infographic and get more ID resources. https://bit.ly/41WIod7