Month: October 2015

As Instructional Designers, you develop training, that is technically accurate, well-written, and visually pleasing. In addition, you must ensure that the training includes new and innovative instructional strategies to teach and engage learners. You need to avoid repeats especially in situations when you are developing a curriculum for a specific audience. Repeating strategies could make the learning experience monotonous. As a result, your learners may not engage with the learning course. So, from where can you get new ideas? Consider Samantha, an Instructional Designer who is worried! She has to deliver a Design Document for an eLearning course. The stakeholders expect a course with out-of-the-box strategies, not a mere page-turner. The existing eLearning the client company depends upon has gaps and does not motivate learners to complete the entire curriculum. Samantha realizes that the time is crunched and resources are limited. She has just two days to present her design document. What now? Another meeting? Team discussion? Sleepless nights? It is in situations such as these that teams resort to brainstorming because they can quickly pool in the best of ideas within a short span of time. A Brainstorming session is often the most forgotten or neglected of steps when it comes to analysis or design phases in a project’s lifecycle. It is easy to brainstorm a design because with multiple people on the team there are more ideas...