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.
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.
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.
These three steps for conducting a needs analysis of your students will help you build lessons that truly connect with your audience.
Learning styles are a myth. So why do so many educators ignore this?
Learn more about instructional design and eLearning with our second module, titled Theory Informs Practice.
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