Welcome to the completion of week nine as we progress through our 12-week service course, Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience For Good. We are entering into the final stages of this course, and at this point, have entered into the Evaluate phase of their design process. Evaluation Phase Last week we developed a prototype so we…
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Instructional Design for the Greater Good: Developing a Prototype
Welcome to the completion of week seven as we progress through our 12-week service course, Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience For Good. In this module, we are developing a prototype of our lesson materials based on our Design Proposal. After completing the prototype in this module, the prototype will be part of a round of…
Instructional Design for the Greater Good: Our First Design Decisions
Welcome to week four of 12 on our journey through the Design for the Greater Good Instructional Design online course. Over the past two weeks, we have been focusing on the ‘Synthesize’ phase of the design process, where we have made our initial design decisions. It was at this point where we chose our subject,…
Design for the Greater Good: Empathy and eLearning
Welcome to week two of 12 on our journey through the Design for the Greater Good Instructional Design online course. This week, we focused on the ‘Analyze’ phase of the design process, learning more about both the learners and the instructional opportunity there. Empathy and eLearning Design The main approach this course uses is called…
Instructional Design for The Greater Good
Like virtually everyone, we here at ThinkingKap can tend to get caught up in our own, and our clients’, situations and lose sight of what’s going on outside of our personal and professional networks. We have a general philosophy to try and give back when and where we can, and as such, a FREE online…
First Principles of Instruction: An Instructional Design Philosophy
As we here at ThinkingKap continue on with the Designing for The Greater Good project-course we’re trying out, this week’s module focused on designing the instructional experience. This week, we focused on Dr. David Merrill and his philosophy, the First Principles of Instruction. The main objective for us was to create eLearning courses that follow…
Top Resources for Learning Instructional Design
If you’re just getting started with learning Instructional Design, your goal is probably to soak up as much information as you can. Knowledge is power—and in this instance, there’s a lot to learn. While it can be intimidating to approach such a large volume of educational resources, over time, you can begin to refine your…
Assemble The Perfect eLearning Team
For anyone who has not worked on a significant sized eLearning project, all the moving pieces can make it feel like a Rube Goldberg machine. Clients undertaking these projects for the first time end up surprised by how much goes into it, and it always takes longer than the uninitiated would assume. With this much going…
10 Awesome Training Engagement Techniques from the Last Year
Wow! As we mentioned yesterday, it’s been a LONG time since we blogged, so it feels good to stretch our typing fingers and re-enter the interweb once again. We may have taken a hiatus from blogging, but everything else has been full steam ahead here at ThinkingKap. So, to jump start our return, we thought…
Manufacturing and mLearning: Improving Efficiency
There are officially more Google searches done on mobile devices than on desktop computers, according to new research released by Google. Interesting, don’t you think? Although, it’s not all that surprising. Look around when you’re out at dinner, before a movie—anywhere, really—and you’ll notice that all of the eyeballs are glued to a smartphone. In…