By following these instructional design best practices, you'll be prepared to add rich media and innovative design in a meaningful way that adds to your learners' experience, rather than complicating or distracting.
See how Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction can help instructional designers create courses and training that are optimally designed to meet their learners' needs.
How can instructional designers serve students' different learning preferences while creating standardized courses? Here's one approach that offers the best of both worlds.
Are you sure your online courses are up-to-date, engaging, and relevant? There are plenty of reasons that educational content gets stale or outdated -- and several tips for avoiding it.
By creating a broad-based multi-generational training strategy, you can bridge the generation gaps in your workforce and bring out the best in every employee.
We offer several design and pedagogy tips to help online course designers reduce student attrition.
Learning in a new environment can be difficult. These tips will help instructional designers develop a new student orientation process to ensure the success of first-time eLearners.
Adults hate being told what to do – and that’s exactly what mandatory compliance training is. But there's a better way! Here are 6 tips to make mandatory training more fun and easier to remember.
Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) are a great tool for saving time when developing online eLearning courses. Here are some tips for designing and applying them to your design workflow.
For students to benefit the most from online courses, instructional designers should include appropriate contextual and corrective feedback. Here are some examples of feedback that works.
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