How can instructional designers use the RACI matrix?
An instructional design team can use a RACI matrix to help clarify roles and responsibilities in the instructional...
Course Design
How do you make lectures better?
Are you facilitating or doing live sessions? Be sure to add time for active participation to increase scores.
Can Workbooks Help Retention?
Do you create workbooks for your courses? A study for young adults measured brain activity during typing and...
How Can Memorization Be A Good Learning Tool?
Memorization is useful. It’s not always about creating or evaluating.
How to Support Cognitive Learning?
By allowing learners a chance to pause and reflect before submitting an answer, allows time to decide on...
Can You Use TikTok For Learning?
The way we consume media often has an impact on consuming knowledge. A small study showed learners learned...
What Can Be Used Instead of the ADDIE Model?
ADDIE, Bloom’s Taxonomy. I’ve always loosely followed these. ADDIE is how I set up project work and Bloom’s...
How to Create A Course For Skill Mastery?
Shake things up to help learners master skills, and not just repetition.
How Do You Deepen Learning?
Learning is more than repetition. You need to have a challenge retrieval process to make things more sticky....
How Do You Motivate Learners?
Solid instructional design can be movitating. I use micro-learning to build confidence and help learners feel like they...
Do Flashcards Help In Studying?
Flashcards are a good study tool. But if you are looking for retention, is self-made or pre-made flash...
How to Improve Retention in a Courses?
Have you thought about color on your courses? This study showed that when you use color-coding in a...
Making Effective Learning Videos
How do you incorporate questions with a video training? A small study showed: 88% prefer the video and...
How to Create eLeaning Interactions
AAssessments to Assets Build your e-learning course around your assessments. Find graphics that can replace the text How...
How to Use SMEs?
#1 Ask about their expectationsUnrealized exceptions.Failed exceptions.Unmet needed. Any of those can make your communications with your SMEs...
How Do You Make Compliance Courses Better?
Remove the never answers Reverse Your Course Remember Your Audience Have you ever taken a course and could...
Measuring Training Beyond a Smile Sheet
Does anyone else love metrics? Call centers are great for metrics. I wanted to show you how I...
What Can You Do In The First 90 Days As An Instructional Designer?
In your first 90 days, your new hire status will let you meet people, request access to systems,...
How To Design A Corporate Training Program
It can feel overwhelming and like you’re drowning when your environment is continually changing, throwing projects at you. ...
How To Help SME Learn The Learning Objective
You went to college for this. You studied theories and design. You know that the learning objectives should...