Month November 2025
We, instructional designers, have a lot to learn from fiction. As kids, most of us were taught to shun fiction as a useless hobby/pursuit, and while I am not totally against the argument, I believe that, as adults who work in the field of instructional design, we would do well to read some fiction.
In this post, we’ll see how some important principles of ID (such as the schema theory and the ARCS model) are reflected in fiction.
“For the Love of Instructional Design – The Non-Textbook for Learning Professionals” is here.
Thank you for inspiring me to write it. If it hadn’t been for your exasperated looks, your constant remonstrations, and your perpetual support, I might not have had the patience to spend three years putting this book together. Now, it’s in your hands.
Once again, thank you 🙂
Grokipedia is the Grok-driven web encyclopedia that xAI launched a week ago (on October 27th, 2025.)
This post presents the author’s thoughts and feelings about this new launch and also brings you some screenshots from the Grokipedia site.
It also lists the similarities and differences between the human-created Wikipedia and the AI-created Grokipedia.
