Instructional Design Blogs

                Connie Malamed wrote 10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer. This blog shows all the qualities needed to become a successful Instructional Designer. Connie Malamed is an eLearning coach who has a masters degree in Instructional Design and Technology. Connie writes about a specific survey given to many Instructional Designers, and finds over half of the people who took the survey do not have degrees in Instructional Design. She then questions if people should have degrees, and Connie cannot come to a final conclusion. She then goes to list the top ten qualities needed to make a successful Instructional Designer. Within the whole blog, this is the most important, because these ten steps describe the perfect role of an Instructional Designer. If you think you will struggle within many of these steps, maybe Instructional Design is not your correct path. Connie blog is informative and she obviously has a lot of experience within the field of Instructional Design.

                Tom Kuhlmann wrote Instructional Design. This blog is about how there are many good things associated with eLearning courses, however sometimes the Instructional Design gets lost. Tom goes on to incorporate twelve different links with more relevant information to better Instructional Design. All links are informative and engaging. After reading this blog, I learned a lot more information how to become a better Instructional Designer. This blog would be excellent to use throughout the Instructional Design field because it tells you the strong points of Instructional Design. For example: How to Create an Engaging E-Learning Course You Can Be Proud Of . This is one of my favorite links, because it is detailed and gives examples. This would perfect if you were an Instructional Designer and you needed help in this area. Tom Kuhlmann has many good ideas, and I will be sure to remember this blog for later use after I am an Instructional Designer.

             Lynne Koltookian wrote 5 Ways Learner Analysis Will Impact Instructional Design. Lynne who works for Langevin Learning Service wrote this blog. This specific organization, specifically wants to help Instructional Designers and the audience they will be teaching. Through this blog, you can see Lynne is very informative and she describes how important it is to know your audience. In this organization, you can download information that you can use to collect about your learners. I feel this blog is very important for Instructional Designers because Langevin offers many tools of support. They will conduct interviews to see who the learners are and you can download information to give to the learners. It seems the organization is very informative.  I will keep this blog in mind when continue my research in Instructional Design because they offer important information on learners and how to understand them and I am sure they offer more support in other areas as well.