Instructional Design Resources

Research is paramount in staying abreast of changes in technology.  As an instructional designer, I have to assess which technology pieces will prove to be most effective in meeting the needs of my learners.  Edutopia is a great resource I found that addresses integrating technology into the curriculum and provides information by grade level, core strategies, and offers an online learning community.

            Aneesh Bhat wrote a great article titled Instructional Design for Beginners.  As a novice, I found his article to be very informative. In this article he defines Motivational Design and addresses John Keller’s ARCS model of Motivational Design.

            Tom Kuhlmann runs the Articulate community of The Rapid E-Learning Blog.  His blog on Instructional Design offers several key element posts from the instructional design perspective.  I especially liked a post which used Post-It notes as a guide to instructional design.  The article examined how we use Post-It notes as cheat sheets to document relevant information to complete a task or learn a concept.  With the wealth of information available to us, it is important that we are able to use our cheat sheet when designing instruction to assure that we stay focused on the task at hand.  Feel free to read this yourself, What We Can Learn from Post-It notes , and give me your feedback as to the relevance of this comparison.