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Thoughts on instructional design, tech enablement, and building better learning cultures.

Do Instructional Designers Have to be Tech-Savvy?

News alert! In certain instructional design roles, you do NOT need to be a highly skilled tech wizard.

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Ways to Learn xAPI

I’ve been upskilling in the area of xAPI in the first half of 2023. It started with the xAPI cohort and I recently completed Jeff Batt’s xAPI course on Udemy, too. xAPI naturally builds on my programming skills.

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Training as a Product

Working in Customer Education, my learning solutions generate revenue. We sell training to our clients.

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Product Documentation and Technical Training

Do you use product documentation when designing technical training? It can make your job A LOT easier.

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The Particulars of Technical Training

At some point in your instructional design career, you may have the opportunity to develop technical training. Technical training aims to develop skills with a particular digital tool.

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How Codecademy Does Asynchronous Learning

The Codecademy courses are completely self-driven and asynchronous. They grant their learners complete autonomy to jump around, look up solutions, and engage at our own pace.

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Why I’m Learning to Code

E-Learning development has much in common with web development. This is why I am enrolling in Codecademy’s front-end web development course!

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Tech Upskilling via LinkedIn Learning

In the world of corporate instructional design, we use very specific digital tools. If you are transitioning to this field and have K-12 experience, our platforms are similar, but not the same. 

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A Small Pep Talk

A small pep talk for instructional designers who don’t feel like technology wunderkinds. You can learn to be tech-savvy.

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