Merrill’s First Principles connect deeply with several other instructional design principles, and this is why, regardless of your own process of building effective courses, you’ll find the principles reflected in your design. In this post, we see how these principles reflect in the IDCDT-AIM Course.
I’m falling in love with instructional design once again. A starry-eyed instructional designer sits with “For the Love of Instructional Design – The Non-textbook for Learning Professionals.”
A fun take on Google’s Nano Banana. A question, something about a scheming schema (which instructional designers have a robust schema of), and a video full of nano-love made by the Nano Banana Grok Imagine duo.
The future instructional designer will be expected to engineer holistic learning experiences. This article helps simplify the purpose and application of xAPI for those Instructional Designers who are either already doing an xAPI-related task without knowing “why,” or who want to prepare themselves for the future.
As we find ourselves pulled into the vortex of AI content creation, as instructional designers, we must create our own unique framework to keep our brains safe and agile. RAD, or the 3 Baskets of AI Tasks, helps us stay sharp.
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