Category: Podcast
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What’s in that Pandora’s Box that is Assessment?
There is a lot to do in the realm of assessment, and instructional designers are expected to do quite a bit of it. Most instructional designers will have had experience with or exposure to The Kirkpatric Model, or the Kirkpatric 4 Levels of Evaluation and Assessment. There is more to assessment than just Kirkpatrick. In…
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Where do programming skills fit into instructional design?
Where do programming skills fit into instructional design? This is a serious question and I’m sincerely curious. I’ve found that I don’t use my programming or scripting skills much in instructional design with the exception of some light HTML and some light CSS. So I’m raising the question of how important are these skills and…
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Watch and Listen to Your Backgrounds
One thing that can be easy to forget when you dash off to do a video is to remember to watch and listen for your backgrounds. A poorly lit project or distracting background noise can cause costly rework in terms of both time and money. And the wrong type of content in the background can…
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Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction
Today I wanted to share Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction which when considered in the design of a lesson can make that lesson much more effective. So just a quick overview of that the nine events are and how they can help make your instruction that much more effective.
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One alternative to Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom isn’t the only game in town when it comes to trying to describe the different categories of learning and learning objectives. And I’m not talking about those who revised and updated his work such as Anderson or Simpson, no I’m talking about actual alternatives. One such alternative comes from Gagné, can you see the…
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Bloom’s Affective Domain
Out of all three of the domains of Bloom’s taxonomy, the Affective Domain seems to get the least amount of love. Which is a bit ironic since it’s the domain that deals with emotions, values, and character traits. The domain is made up of five levels. Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, and Characterizing. So what do…
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A quick intro to the psychomotor domain of Bloom’s taxonomy.
The psychomotor domain of Bloom’s taxonomy doesn’t get as much love as the cognitive domain. Which is interesting to me since the psychomotor domain is the area where we teach skills involving movement or manipulation of stuff which in many cases is a significant amount of the teaching domain that we are responsible for. So…
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Blooms Cognitive Domain Taxonomy
Today I wanted to take a closer look at Blooms Cognitive Domain Taxonomy. Specifically, the revised taxonomy done by Anderson and his team in 2001. The revised taxonomy includes Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. But what does that mean and how is that supposed to help us design instruction or build a curriculum…
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A really quick intro to Bloom’s Taxonomies (yup all three)
Most people have heard in passing about Bloom’s Taxonomy, especially if they are even remotely connected to education or training. But not as many know that there are actually three of Bloom’s Taxonomies. And almost no one remembers that Benjamin Bloom got his name on the spine of the first books on the subject by…
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A rapid primer on Wireframing
After talking about storyboards the question came up “What is a wireframe” so in this video I answer that question and ask another, can we put together a quick and dirty wireframe prototype of a mobile customer service training module in ten minutes or less? The answer is no, but in this example of how…
Christopher Bergeron 