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Instructional design basics

Instructional design basics

- All right, so if you've ever tried to figure out how to create online training, you've probably done some searches and stumbled across terms like instructional design or learning theories and terms like that. Now, they might sound like something new, or something you don't know anything about, but here's the thing. Every time that you've ever designed a class or a workshop to teach someone something new, you've essentially been doing a form of instructional design. Instructional design is just all about packaging information in a way to make it easy for learners to digest, to remember, and then, of course, most importantly, to apply. So whether that's in a physical classroom or behind a computer screen online, that doesn't make a difference. Now, you also might have heard of terms like ADDIE and SAM, maybe agile and other types of learning theories. You don't have to worry about those when you're just getting started building or converting your content. They're going to help you…

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