Thinking Allowed

medical / technology / education / art / flub

In search of the secret handshakes of ID

"Many of my sponsoring stakeholders - that is, the people with the power to buy instructional design services - wouldn’t have known a learning solution if it bit them on the toe. Frankly, they really didn’t care about learning. They really didn’t want me to tell them about the gloriousness of ID. ... [but they knew when it didn't work]"


Ellen Wagner's essay (2011) is a good one and reframes instructional design as a mix of production, communication, technology, and design.

Having theories and frameworks for instructional design has served us well but describing it in terms of what designers do may be more useful.

We didn't have time to cover this in the APMEC 2020 workshop W1A7 in Singapore today but we touched ever-so-briefly on it. Recommended further reading!

Source: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c9b0ce_4c5d961291de41e58e08576d3c9ee868.pdf

design instructional id really apmecworkshop ever-so-briefly wagner gloriousness