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Today someone asked me a crazy question: “What are the Instructional Design Jobs, Are there Instructional Design Jobs, Where are They, and How much do instructional design jobs pay?” (I said it was a crazy question) So let’s take a look! Some nearby, some remote, some in the $40,000 range and some in the $90,000…

  A screencast for students. The lesson was they were to outline all of my mistakes and how I could have prevented them. Specifically with regards to the audio and video. You may notice the background, lighting, and lack of an external mic. But since I was going to make them watch a short video…

The other day my kids sent me to KFC to pick up something, we were pressed for time, it was close, fast, and ehh I didn’t mind. Until of course I got to KFC. It had been years since I’d been to KFC and I have to say I was quickly taught a hands-on lesson…

The other day I read a great article from the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.  While I love the journal it’s not a common read for course designers but there are some great gems in there.  The article that caught my attention was “Time is the bottleneck”: A qualitative study exploring why learners drop…

I was asked to be a guest on the TLDC.us podcast which is a daily discussion on Instructional Design. I thought they were going to talk to me about instructional video and instead once they learned about the new program I’m helping to develop at Bellevue University that is where the discussion moved. We talked…

There are parts of instructional design that includes some significant writing at times. This is especially true for instructional design in education. I’ve been working on writing a new Masters in Instructional Design and Technology which involves as you might expect a lot of writing. From writing assessments to writing welcome texts to writing individual…

An important aspect of instructional design is understanding the learning context.  Dick and Carey even pull out a “Context Analysis” as part of their systematic process. This is fairly straightforward for face to face training since it means taking a closer look at the classroom and the classroom resources.  Analyzing the learning context is a…

Student motivation is essential to effective instruction. Unmotivated learners will tune out and shut down. Motivation can come from a variety of sources intrinsic motivation can come from curiosity, a sense of achievement, self-efficacy, and confidence. Extrinsically motivation can come from the offer of reward or fear of punishment from an authority. There are ways…

With instructional design encompassing a wide and complex set of skills and tasks having a model or framework to follow can be quite helpful.  There are a wide variety of instructional design models that instructional designers leverage to help with best practices and the help ensure steps are not left out. As you review the different…

Writing performance objectives is one of the more well-known components of the instructional design process. Performance objectives are sometimes referred to as behavioral objectives. The terms are important since essentially we will be looking to have learners demonstrate their learning through performing an observable behavior. There are of course many terms used and performance objectives…