Articles / Instructional or Learning Design transition
The links below are jumping-off points designed for someone who is transitioning to an instructional or learning design role. Most of them are resources rather than courses, simply because that’s the route I tend to take myself. Courses are great if you need the structure to force you to practice. My learning is typically a little bit more ad hoc, happening at the point of need, and based on an extreme curiosity about how things work.
Working with subject matter experts
- University of Massachusetts Amherst: Effective listening
- Tim Slade: Questions to ask your subject matter experts
- Connie Malamed: Guide to doing a subject matter expert interview
- Harvard University Professional Development: 8 things to improve your communication skills
- The Enterprisers Project: 10 TED talks to sharpen your communication skills
- Wikipedia: Communication
- Wikipedia: Listening
- Wikipedia: Question
- Futurelearn - University of Leeds: Communication and interpersonal skills at work
- Futurelearn: 7 ways to improve your listening skills
Learning design
- Etienne Wenger: Introduction to Communities of Practice
- Community of Inquiry framework
- Athabasca University: Theory and Practice of Online Learning
- InfEd: Adult Education encyclopedia
- Stephen Downes: Recent work in connectivism
- Stephen Downes: Elearning Principles
- Coffield et al: Learning styles and pedagogy in post 16 education - a critical and systematic review
- Cathy Moore: Action mapping
- ID transition toolkit
User experience
- NN Group: Definition of user experience
- NN Group: How people read online
- Interaction Design Foundation: Visual Hierarchy
- Samantha Heighes: UX design resources
- Visme: Memorable visual presentations
Technical
- W3Schools: HTML tutorial
- W3Schools: CSS tutorial
- W3Schools: Javascript tutorial
- Kevin Powell: Getting started with CSS - Youtube Playlist
- Mozilla: Getting started with HTML
- Mozilla: Learn to style HTML with CSS
- Mozilla: Javascript - Dynamic client-side scripting
Posted: 06 April 2023
Tags: Skills