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Instructional Design: The New Normal

Aaron Wolowiec

Always the bridesmaid (facilitator) and never the bride (learner), it was a chance for me to turn the tables and become a participant in ATD’s Master Instructional Designer Program. So, what is instructional design? food and beverage, AV and function space) while instructional designers focus on the content presented.

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Bonus content – Event Garde e-news May edition

Aaron Wolowiec

Sometimes the energy of a coffee shop helps me initially dive into content, but then I need to retreat to a quiet setting for focus. The more I learn about trends impacting society, association management and events, the better I can design education and event experiences for our participants. Learn: Q: How do you learn best?

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Start with the last first?

Aaron Wolowiec

But from an instructional designer’s viewpoint, what’s the secret to creating a program that works? How can designers help students retain knowledge and then transfer that knowledge to their workplace? While I’m not going to list them all here, a few suggestions are especially noteworthy: Design the end of your lesson first.

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Start with the last first?

Aaron Wolowiec

But from an instructional designer’s viewpoint, what’s the secret to creating a program that works? How can designers help students retain knowledge and then transfer that knowledge to their workplace? While I’m not going to list them all here, a few suggestions are especially noteworthy: Design the end of your lesson first.

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Improving knowledge transfer in your organization in 3 stages

Aaron Wolowiec

The most powerful reason learning transfer is ineffective, as was revealed during the ATD International Conference & Exposition 2016, is that 90 percent of training is designed without a well-defined strategy that facilitates it. Identify the training goals and learning objectives before you start designing the course.

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Call for Presentations: Dead or Alive?

Aaron Wolowiec

Works with those individuals to co-create an experience with both quality content and quality instructional design (e.g., I hope this helps spark some ideas of how you might tweak the process within your own organization to ensure the “right” content at your next event. visuals, handouts, activities). Response 2. Just the Facts.

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Time for a MOOC-like makeover

Aaron Wolowiec

It recently released a whitepaper with 10 tips for instructional designers and LMS administrators, inspired by the success of MOOCs. Associations need three things: people (SMEs, instructional designers, LMS administrators), processes (course development, marketing) and technology (video, left-navigation layout).

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