The Instructional Designer’s Training Guide: Authentic Practices and Considerations for Mentoring ID and Ed Tech Professionals

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Short Description

It is important that educators take inventory of how they are facilitating authentic learning experiences for their learners, so these new designers are ready for the wide variety of contextual factors that may impact the results of their projects. As educators provide these situated experiences, learners will be able to develop abilities as designers, and artifacts that showcase their skills, making them more competitive and viable for the workforce.

Unclear expectations are not the only challenge facing new designers. It is important that new instructional designers feel confident embracing constraints, working among changing project expectations, and interacting with multiple stakeholders on a variety of projects. Not only is it important for ID programs to provide new designers a solid foundation in fundamental instructional design concepts, they must also work towards cultivating their learners’ interpersonal skills.

This book provides the foundational concepts along with practical strategies for training and mentoring educational technology and instructional design students to be able to design instruction in a variety of contexts. There is a need for students to gain real-world instructional design practice and gain experience with contending with different learning audiences and contextual factors.

Authors

• Presenter: Jill Stefaniak, University of Georgia

• Presenter: Rebecca M. Reese, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design