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Beginner Instructional Designers – In Pursuit Of Awareness

 

Instructional Design  |  2 MIN

Beginner Instructional Designers – In Pursuit Of Awareness

Written by Aneesh Bhat

Beginner Instructional Designer I joined Upside Learning as an Instructional Designer in April 2010. I had four years of training delivery experience, but Instructional Design was a completely new ball game! My first few weeks at Upside Learning were overwhelming and also intimidating to an extent. Almost everything that was discussed in team meetings and training sessions was akin to Greek and Latin.

Beginner Instructional Designers

The Challenge

Learning about Instructional Design basics was easier said than done. I found it very difficult to pick-up concepts from our team training sessions, and I needed to learn at my own pace.

The Lifesavers

I decided to try my luck online. In my quest for awareness, I came across quite a few resources that helped me learn about the basic concepts of Instructional Design and ELearning. I have listed some of them below for my fellow rookie Instructional Designers.

  • www.elearninglearning.com – eLearning Learning is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning.  It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub.  Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organizes that content around keywords in the topic domain.
  • www.jarche.com – Harold Jarche’s blog is a great place to get introduced to ‘Informal Learning’.
  • www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/ – Jane Hart provides news, resources, ideas and new thinking about social media for working and learning, from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT). She also aggregates postings from her other blogs: Jane’s Pick of the Day and Social Media for Working and Learning.
  • www.kaplaneduneering.com/kappnotes – Karl Kapp’s blog discusses issues concerning learning, e-learning and transferring knowledge from retiring baby boomers to incoming gamers. The goal is to share information and knowledge to create a better understanding of learning design.
  • www.elearningtech.blogspot.com – Tony Karrer’s blog is a great place to learn about emerging trends in eLearning technology.

A Wonderful New World

The internet is a treasure trove of learning resources. Keep exploring, and you never know what you’ll stumble upon.

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  1. Maya January 14, 2014

    Hi Aneesh, this is a really good post. Thanks. I can relate to finding instructional design by chance and have always been trying to build a career out of it. I think one of the challenges for those not having a full time ID job but wants to learn more and build the required skills is not knowing where to begin. The Internet is full of resources and updates which can be overwhelming at times. It will be helpful if you could also shed some light or provide tips on key steps towards realising a dream in this field. Thank you.

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  3. Aneesh Bhat May 24, 2012

    Hi Jimena.
    Thank you for bringing the issue to our attention. The error has been rectified and the links should now work just fine.
    Appreciate your feedback!
    Aneesh

  4. Jimena May 23, 2012

    Hi Aneesh
    I was trying to check the sites to recommended but they give me the same “page not found”  message.. I’m an instructional designer as well and I’m trying to learn more on the web.
     

  5. Vinay April 9, 2012

    Hi mam,
    It was really helpful your guidance ..i m looking for career in instructional design..but scope in my contry(india) is very less.i have recently started instructional design ..becoz i donot know abt this field earlier. I have been completed for One year in Content developer at Bajajallianz company ,so i m wondering from where to start…Hope u can guide me.

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