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Aadi sat in front of the Managing Director. The Managing Director, Ms. Muskaan Dutta, took a sip from her largish cup of coffee that had “Difficult Decisions Make Life Easier,” scrawled on it, cleared her throat and began… —–0—– He…
Dear Readers, I’m conducting The IDTRA workshop on June 24th. This workshop will explore the relationships between the different facets of learning while focusing on Instructional Design, Content Development, Training, and Rapid Authoring. Its goal would be to answer the…
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…
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…
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…
Dreams and Nightmares – A Short Story about Success, Pride, and Fear The sound of the footsteps echoed in the silence of the night. As Lisa hurriedly made her way across the society compound to reach her block of…
Sloth tries to reduce his dissonance through deliberate misinterpretation of his supervisor’s remark. Cognitive Dissonance: Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort that people feel when they experience something that doesn’t agree with their existing knowledge or beliefs. …
His bed was set against the window. The caretaker had laughed when he said that he liked to look outside his window the first thing in the morning. “You don’t know what’s outside that window or you won’t be…