Follow along as I build Designed for Doing: what’s working, what’s been challenging, and what I’m changing along the way. New posts from my design journal appear here automatically.
- Did I finish on my timeline? Mostly. The whole course is there: all nine modules have their lessons, knowledge checks and interactive activities, plus a Training Design Blueprint exemplar for each module. What isn’t done […]
- If this blog went quiet for a bit, blame report cards, followed by a long weekend in Colorado that I don’t regret at all. Now I’m back to teaching, grad school and, as of this […]
- My course is called Designed for Doing, so I probably shouldn’t be surprised that most of what I’ve learned this semester came from doing things, and occasionally from doing them twice. With half the course […]
- Designed for Doing is a nine-module, self-paced course for subject matter experts who have been asked to “make a training” and are new to instructional design. The good news is that the core of the […]
- As I continue developing my course, Designed for Doing, I have been exploring instructional design models that could complement the approaches I am already using. Two that caught my attention were Design Thinking and Kirkpatrick’s […]
- Peer feedback gave me a chance to see Designed for Doing from someone else’s perspective. It was encouraging to hear that the course progression, constructivist foundation, and Training Design Blueprint were clear and well-aligned. Since […]
- Exploring active learning, reflection, and connection in online course design This week’s three readings approached instructional design from different perspectives, but I found a common thread running through all of them: learners benefit from opportunities […]
- Article Synopsis In this article, the authors present a case study of a university that created an online training that serves as onboarding for course design fundamentals/course planning for subject matter experts (SMEs) prior to […]