{"id":60145,"date":"2017-07-24T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60145"},"modified":"2017-07-22T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:19:12","slug":"a-starter-kit-for-instructional-designers-ahearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/24\/a-starter-kit-for-instructional-designers-ahearn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers [Ahearn]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Amy Ahearn<\/p>\n

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A\u00a02016 report<\/a>\u00a0funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn\u2019t know this field existed. Surely a lot has changed!<\/p>\n

Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they\u2019ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.<\/p>\n

The field has deep roots in distance education, human computer interaction, and visual design. But I\u2019ve come to believe that contemporary instructional design sits at the intersection of three core disciplines: learning science, human-centered design, and digital marketing. It requires a deep respect for the pedagogical practices that teachers have honed for decades, balanced with fluency in today\u2019s digital tools.
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\nBelow are some of the lessons and resources that I wish I knew of when I first went on the job market\u2014a combination of the academic texts you read in school along with practical tools that have been essential to practicing instructional design in the real world. This is not a complete or evergreen list, but hopefully it\u2019s a helpful start.<\/p>\n

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So You Want to Be an Instructional Designer?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from edsurge.com by Marguerite McNeal<\/p>\n

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Good listener. People person. Lifelong learner. Sound like you? No, we\u2019re not trying to arrange a first date. These are some common traits of people with successful careers in a booming job market: instructional design.<\/p>\n

Colleges, K-12 schools and companies increasingly turn to\u00a0instructional designers\u00a0to help them improve the quality of teaching in in-person, online or blended-learning environments.<\/p>\n

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A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers — from edsurge.com by Amy Ahearn Excerpts: A\u00a02016 report\u00a0funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn\u2019t know this field existed. Surely a lot has changed! Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,174,127,115,302,260,271,135,346,343,215,98,3,99,119,102,223,23,62,196,269,50,188,214,312,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-career-development","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-creativity","category-design","category-distance-education","category-education","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-elearning","category-higher-education","category-hybrid-learning","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-theories","category-multimedia","category-online-learning","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-using-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60149,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60145\/revisions\/60149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}