Instructional Design Blogs

Week 1: Blog,

I am currently enrolled in Walden University in the master’s program for Instructional Design and technology. In this blog, you will find information I find and other things regarding Instructional Design.

This week I was tasked with finding three blogs that I can reference for ideas and tips on how to be a better trainer. The first blog I found was  Elucidat. 

The post I found titled, Learners are distracted and impatient. Here are 5 ideas to help you motivate learners in 2016. This was a great article and had some very great points. A point made is we need to focus on the learning and make it useful. Too many times we are trained on things and shown how to make it useful. I my mind, this means we won't internalize the training and eventually we will be trained on it again in the future. It amazes me how much technology is a part of our lives. We are constantly checking our phones for messages or notifications from our apps. This has caused our brains to always be multi-tasking. 

Another blog I found was Articulate. I really like this blog as it is focused on e-learning. With technology become the main source of training, I think that learning all we can about it will help us in our career as instructional designers. An article I found that I enjoyed was, motivate your with these 5 simple steps. This was like the first blog I found but this pertained specifically to e-learning. One of the 5 steps is rewarding your learners. This can really help motivate your learners and they will work hard to remember what you have taught to win a prize or whatever reward you are able to give.

The third one I found was from Training Mag. This site has a ton of resources to help with learning development and ideas. This site is dedicated to professional development. The article I found interesting is called, TALENT TIPS: MOTIVATING LEARNERS TO LEARN. One of the tips in this article is answering the question, what’s in this for me? When delivering a training we need to answer that question so that the learner will be engaged in learning because they see what they should get from the training.

I really enjoyed learning from these blogs and will continue checking back with them to learn not only while in my current class but throughout my career.