Telltale Signs you need Instructional Design

After posting “Who Needs Instructional Design?” I received emails asking for specific indicators that knowledge of Instructional Design is recommended. Queries came from both career Training professionals and those rotated into L&D from other functional areas. Since there are different roles in the Learning function, I will try to go over each one. If you design training programs, the first thing to review is your objectives. Are...

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Do I Need Instructional Design?

image from houses.com This is the most common question asked by Learning & Development (L&D) professionals. To answer the question, there are 2 related questions one needs to ask: 1) What really is Instructional Design? and 2) What do you do in the L&D function? I describe Instructional Design (ID) as the planning side of training. My daughters say it so abstract that I have been using a metaphor of building a house to be more...

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