Rikki Lee
- Oct 28, 2020
- 4 min
Wake Up to Better Learning
Let’s say you’re staying up late, racing against a deadline to put the finishing touches on the slides for an online course you...
Tom Brooksher
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
Preventing Online Learning Abandonment
For all its benefits, online learning often fails for one reason: abandonment. Too many students start courses but don’t finish them. The...
Kyle Brooksher
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
An Instructional Designer’s Guide to Working Remotely
From my experience, instructional designers are more likely to work from home than the average employee. But still, I would estimate that...
Rikki Lee
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
Leading with the Brain, Not the Heart
It happens to everybody from time to time: You’re given a boring, overly difficult or otherwise unappealing training or instructional...
Tom Brooksher
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
What Kind of Training Do You Really Need?
Several years ago we were approached by a large outsourced call center company. They had tens of thousands of agents in call centers on...
Rikki Lee
- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
Don't Stop Learning
You haven’t been an instructional designer or a trainer all your life, but you’ve never stopped learning—beginning at a very young age...
Kyle Brooksher
- Jun 24, 2020
- 3 min
Picking Up The Scent of Learning Retention
How do you make your classroom training more memorable? If you’re like most instructors, you’ll incorporate audio and video and even some...
Tom Brooksher
- Jun 3, 2020
- 4 min
What Are Spacing and Interleaving?
If you’ve studied education, you might be familiar with the concept of "spacing." It suggests that to spread teaching or reinforcement...
Rikki Lee
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
Writing Tips for the Instructional Designer (2020 edition)
The task of writing anything substantial usually results in the writer experiencing some degree of stress. Traditionally, the stress...
Tom Brooksher
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Considerations for Updating Your Training
Training needs to be developed, delivered and maintained. If you have a plan to create it and deliver it, but no plan to keep it updated,...
