12+ Books for Instructional Designers
If you’re looking for some reading to improve your skills or get started in the field of instructional design, check out these books.
Workplace Learning
Review: Learning Everywhere by Chad Udell
I am still very much a novice in mobile learning. I’ve known for quite a while that mobile was a topic I’d have to learn more about eventually, but to be honest, it isn’t something most of my clients are talking about yet. I suspect I am one of the only instructional designers left in
First Impressions of TelePresence
I recently participated in my first TelePresence meeting. If you haven’t seen this technology, imagine videoconferencing, but life-size and set up so it feels more like you’re physically in the same room. In the US, you may have seen Cisco’s commercials with Ellen Page where she visits a classroom that is taking a “field trip”
LearnTrends: Microlearning
These are my live blogged notes from Janet Clarey’s LearnTrends session on Microlearning. My side comments are in italics. Official description: Microlearning: Beyond Learning Objects and Just-in-time Performance Support The need and pressure to learn continually, coupled with limited time available to learn, make new digital media viable for professional development. Microlearning – the learning
LearnTrends: Reinventing Organizational Learning
These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. My side comments in italics. Update: The recording of this session (and the rest of LearnTrends) is now available. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer” Need to be more agile & change
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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity
These are my live blogged notes from Tony O’Driscoll’s LearnTrends session on The Immernet Singularity. My side comments are in italics. Update: The recording of this session (and the rest of LearnTrends) is now available. Official description: The Immernet Singularity: How the Immersive Internet Will Redefine Learning and Collaboration. Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning,
LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management
These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. My side comments are in italics. Update: The recording of this session (and the rest of LearnTrends) is now available. Sense-making with PKM When he moved to consulting and didn’t have an IT department and those resources, he realized he
LearnTrends: Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations
Live blogged notes from Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations with Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern. My side comments are in italics. Update: The recording of this session (and the rest of LearnTrends) is now available. Official description: Thomson Reuters meets the challenge of supporting the learning and development of its employees across the
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Learntrends: Convergence in Learning
These are my live blogged notes from the first LearnTrends session, Introduction: Convergence in Learning, with George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and Jay Cross. Awkward phrasing, typos, or things that simply don’t make sense out of the context of the live session are par for the course. My side comments are in italics. Update: The recording