If you want to meet me for a realtime live audio chat, I invite you to join the Instructional Design Junction Club on the Clubhouse app. I have a weekly room where we discuss instructional design and I’d love to…
Rational thought that requires that we process facts and information using logical thinking belongs in the cognitive realm. Most trainings require that we impart a cogntive/psychomotor skill to the learner. Bloom’s taxonomy (or the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy) handles the cognitive…
Winning the Microlearning War requires that we understand the three avatars of the micromearning audience and then use the 5 instructional methods to ensure its effectiveness.
Rapid Authoring is just what the name suggests – a method to author content rapidly. Quick Deductions: From this simple statement, we can deduce the following: If Rapid authoring means developing eLearning content rapidly or quickly, then there must be…
Just read an interesting piece, A Reminder of What Makes a Real Writer by Chuck Wendig, and loved the accompanying infographic. I feel quite the same about being an instructional designer. When you find yourself wondering whether you are an…
John Herrell has been there, perhaps you’ve been there too. PowerPoint Coma is a real phenomenon. It drives those afflicted into a daze that numbs their brains; it has a soporific effect so strong that you’d ditch valium; it is…
ID Course Update and Other Thoughts: The Instructional Design and Content Development (IDCD) Course: The Jan session of IDCD is currently in progress. I intend to start the next session in April. If you are interested in taking the program…
Previous posts in this series: IDEAL: Understanding Cognitive Dissonance – Explanation and Illustration. IDEAL: Cognitive Dissonance in On-ground and Online Trainings – Reasons & Remedy. Cognitive Dissonance & Other Instructional Design Principles: Cognitive dissonance reflects in many other ID theories…
Read the previous post “IDEAL: Understanding Cognitive Dissonance – Explanation and Illustration” here. Cognitive Dissonance in Classrooms and Other Learning Environments: According to Leon Festinger, who proposed the theory, Cognitive dissonance may arise due to two or more conflicting cognitions (thoughts.)…
Cognitive Dissonance: (Explanation, Illustration, and its Impact on Learning.) Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: I had first encountered this term when I was a student of management. The context was customer behavior, and the concept being discussed was Post-purchase Dissonance. To…