Why everyone on your team must understand Instructional Design — from learningsolutionsmag.com by Megan MacDonald
Excerpts:
In my decade-long experience on projects of varying and increasing size, there are the key components I think you need to invest in helping your teams and management understand. And here they are:
- Significance of learning objectives, and in particular the importance of action verbs and how they apply to your project.
- Learning audience, including existing knowledge, background(s), and even personalities, can impact decisions such as instructor-led versus self-paced, where you need to start, the pace you need to set, and the specific information you need to provide on any given subject.
- Concepts of cognitive load and scaffolding.
- Instructional design is not always linear.
- Finally, there is not a one-size-fits-all solution to programs, courses, or even individual lessons.