Instructional Design and Learning

With technological advances, finding information about a particular subject is easy.  Finding quality information, however, can be a challenge.  As an Instructional Designer, sources and resources must be properly vetted before being used to create content and learning for students.   This week, I will cover the methods I use to vet sources and provide three (3) resources about the brain and learning, information processing theory, and problem-solving methods during the learning process. The Search Regardless of the search tool used, narrowing down the parameters when finding good sources is essential.  I often use Google to locate sources.  Performing a general search for "problem-solving methods during the learning process" will bring up a plethora of results and suggestions: Often, peer-reviewed scholarly articles are pre-vetted and trusted sources.  I recommend adding "peer-reviewed articles" to the end of the original search string to elicit ...

There is a plethora of information and resources for Instructional Designers.  It is often hard to discern what will be helpful or, perhaps, misguiding.  Recently, I found three (3) bloggers that will be helpful in my career as an Instructional Designer - Clark Quinn , the Association for Talent Development , and Tim Slade .  For my first blog, I will delve into a blog from each that I found informative. Clark Quinn - Quinnovation Although the blog I chose from Quinn is from 2022, the information is still relevant to today's Instructional Designer.  Titled "Top 10 Learning Tools for 2022," this blog describes text, visual, social, and search tools that an Instructional Designer can use to build content and professional networks.  While familiar with most of the tools, I did enjoy exploring the visual recommendations and finding new ways to reach my end-users/learners, such as OmniGraffle and Keynote.   Association for Talent Development - ATD...