Archive for February, 2008

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Cammy Bean has derived a shortlist from John Curry’s long list of suggested books for learning instructional design.
The good news, for me at least, is that I’ve either got most of them or read them already. And this is a GOOD list!!!


There has been a GREAT discussion going on about the merits of formal education when it comes to being a good instructional designer. It this post, John Curry shares some books, etc. to serve as a starting point if you were to learn it all on your own. Great stuff!
How to get an Instructional Design [...]


This post could almost be renamed “Top Free Tools for Learning”. It struck me that all but one of the top 20 were free. And that the top two ”pay for” tools are PowerPoint and Word which could easily be replaced by free alternatives. I wonder if this is specific to the learning arena or are we just more open [...]


I just saw Smashing Magazine’s guide to Web design.and immediately thought that these principles also apply to e-Learning .

Don’t make users think: You might think I’m crazy right off the bat with this first one but hear me out. Obviously we want our learners to think but we want them to think about the content and not how [...]