Instructional Design and Learning Technology

Intro I am essentially conducting my own personalized needs analysis relative to this project: Simply stated, I need to determine the tasks the average instructional designer completes most days and the tools and techniques they will utilize in order to complete them. Go back and read my first post if you would like to know what this is about. Suppositions Surely soliciting the feedback of other IDs would yield a more detailed result. However, I am operating under a couple of suppositions: Most IDs will tell me most organizations strongly prefer deliverables using only commercial ($$$) products. We currently have an orientation toward "edutainment." Style currently rules over substance in many settings.  ID Overkill? Anyone who is "classically" trained in ISD or worked in the field long enough knows as long as we follow "brain rules," and also soundly align the experiences, methods, and assessments to the learning objectives, the mediation of instruction ...

Instructional Systems Design might be defined as leveraging what we know about human cognition, learning and learning theory, certain business processes, data analysis, multimedia development principles, and a host of other topics to improve learning and performance outcomes in a variety of settings.  In attempting to define what some consider an ellusive role/job/approach to learning,  I am really trying to say there are many, many ways to approach instruction. When people ask for my help in desining training and educational programs, I feel compelled to ask many questions. One of my teachers suggested I read Edgar Schein, particularly his books Helping and Humble Inquiry  As an adherent to Dr. Schein's principles, I am only truly helping people when I carefully listen to people who ask for my help, act in ways that are meaningful and helpful to them, and recognize that I must be humble when I am in positions of authority, seniority, or advantage over others in order to ...