Instructional Design Resources

I found these three resources for Instructional Design Information that I will be using. Hopefully you will find the information useful also.


The first one is Making Change - Ideas for lively Elearning by Cathy Moore. In this blog Cathy has posts designed to give information on creating and designing Elearning. She provides information on different ways to make your Elearning projects interesting and informative. She focuses how to design based on the needs of the learners and also gives information on different techniques. She also includes case scenarios. I find this blog to be very informational because Elearning is something I am considering getting into and I would like to learn more about how it works. You are able to browse the blog by categories.

The next one is Learning in Bits by Allison Moreland. This is a blog which was designed by an experienced Instructional Designer who started the blog when she went back to school to pursue her Masters in Instructional Design just as we are. I like this one because I feel like as a student herself she will have information that I may be able to relate to and possibly contribute to. By being able to interact and contribute to this blog I will learn new things. It also has a link to another blog on Adobe Captivate which is a part of the software we will be using in our degree program here at Walden University. Since I am not familiar with the software I think that this will also be very helpful to me.

Lastly, I chose Train! Facilitate! Present!, which is a blog newsletter by Guila Muir. Guila is a trainer for trainers. Her job is to teach trainers how to become better. This blog is designed to help Instructional Design experts be better at presenting, training and facilitating. I chose this blog because I want to make sure that I not only learn how to do Instructional Design during this degree but I also want to be good at presenting it. I have took part in many training programs that while they were informative they were also very boring. I want to be exciting and informational. I want to learn strategies that will make me a great Instructional Designer not only because of the information I present but also because of how I presented it. There are different topics discussed in each newsletter with different relevance to a different way to become better.