As mobile learning continues to increase in popularity, pioneering designers are creating innovative new mobile applications to assist on both sides of the learning exchange. Madhuri Dubey, one of these pioneers, has developed a free app for instructional designers called MoBytes. It addresses the immediate learning and performance needs of instructional designers, who must continually refresh their knowledge and skills.
Too often today you will find organizations hastily slap-together a bunch of PowerPoint slides, upload them into a program like Articulate, click “publish” and call it “elearning” The reality is that this type of elearning development is just flat-out ineffective. Any instructional designer will tell you that in order to create effective training, there are certain design principles and models that should be leveraged.
Combining traditional teaching with eLearning is what we call blended learning. Jump in to see how learning can be made more engaging, interesting and fun.
As an Instructional Designer, motivating learners is an important consideration because in reality learners are not always motivated to learn. They are busy, have other things to do, don’t see the ...
It seems like motivation is always a struggle, especially in online courses. This article has some great advice about how to engage and motivate adult learners.