Category Archives: instructional design

Learning is everywhere

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I presented at conference for the 40th reunion of the Florida State University Instructional Systems program. Here’s the presentation I gave: Learning is everywhere from Gina Minks In the presentation, I talked about how instructional design theory is very important … Continue reading

logistics – an important part of instructional design

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This a medicine-induced blog post (yay flu) – so its sort of a stream of consciousness post. We learn by doing. Work is learning. When we design training, we try to figure out what people need to do, then we design the … Continue reading

How can we help speed the convergence of dev and ops?

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This is a post to try and draw some of my thoughts together – so criticism welcomed and encouraged. I could be completely off base with what I’m about to write…y’all keep me honest! 🙂 In my new position at … Continue reading

How do you design training for Dev AND Ops?

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I’m about ten days into my new job. In the last ten days I’ve been to Sunnyvale to the Inktank offices, to San Francisco for VMworld parties and v0dgeball, and finally San Diego for Xen Summit and Cloud Open. I’ve … Continue reading

Systematic Instructional Design should be a Learning GPS

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This post is a continuation from a post about the impact of lots of freely available content on learners. My argument is that systematic instructional design can be used to help students navigate the tremendous amount of content that is … Continue reading

More content means we need instructional design more than ever

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By now you’ve all heard it. Heck by now you have experienced it. I’m talking about the explosion of the digital universe. IDC and EMC have been measuring the size of the Digital Universe for a few years now. This … Continue reading

Anyone can be an ID. But should *anyone* be an ID?

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This is my response to last week’s #lrnchat. I was inspired to write it after watching an internal (EMC) discussion about training. Anyone can perform the ID function You heard me correctly. ANYONE. I have to say I was so … Continue reading

Was Kirkpatrick influenced by the guys who thought up “planned obsolescence””?

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A few days ago Clive Shepard wrote a post entitled What’s the Problem with Kirkpatrick? Who is Kirkpatrick? For those of you who aren’t all geeky about instructional design, Donald Kirkpatrick came up with the four levels of instruction back … Continue reading

Systems approach of designing instruction

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I’ve posted before about the Dick & Carey method of instructional design – while I was taking a class based on the Dick & Carey method. This method of instructional design is very popular because it represents a systems method … Continue reading

Another view on the Informal vs. Formal learning

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I really like the posts on the blog Corporate eLearning Strategies & Development. This post gets right to the point of what Corporate Learning departments really need to focus on – enabling the performance of our audiences. From the post: … Continue reading