Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Successful Instructional Designer?
Learn about the top eight personality traits of great instructional designers and how they distinguish leading instructional designers from their peers.
Education Funding: The Next Shiny Object
Echo360 Foundation director John Wilson shares his thoughts on finding and funding the right kind of learning technology.
CSU: Thinking outside the box
Rather than be deterred, she decided to have students watch videos and use their clickers to record the data.
Customize your experience with SSO
Require users to leverage the email passed from their SSO when creating a Echo360Point account to prevent account creation with the wrong email address.
Digital Learning: Using the Power of Subject Matter Experts
Instructional Designers and SME’s are both essential to creating effective digital learning. Yet it can be difficult to understand how to work with the other. Here’s how Learning and Development can better utilize SME’s to help create content.
Creating value in your company training program
By Stephanie Naoum I’m sure you have all attended a training that left you confused, bored or wondering why we were even there. Do the below statements sound familiar? I was a passive listener. The content did not apply to my daily job. I didn’t understand the language/vocabulary used. When designing a training program, it…
Creating a clicker culture in your classroom
By Stephanie Naoum Let’s face it—your students might be hesitant to use a new technology in the classroom. However, by incorporating a new technology, you are creating a more student-centered atmosphere, moving away from passive learning and moving towards an interactive, agile teaching approach. Creating this type of culture cannot and will not happen overnight….
Creating Learner Trust Through Interactivity
Don’t throw out your content, reinvigorate it. Interactivity for the sake of it is worthless, but you can easily adapt existing content and apply new modalities in a meaningful way.
Active Learning Strategies (Passive is out, Active is in)
Organizations themselves are looking for competitive advantages. Training is at the center of this competitive advantage.
Application of Learning Theories in the Workplace
Behaviorism is often a theory that instructional designers default to if they do not have formal training.