Week 1: Relevant Content Related to ID

One of the many things that I love about Instructional Design is the passion that Instructional Designers have for their careers. This was something that I noticed again when looking at the various blogs and professional sites this week. I have three sites that I want to start by sharing with you all that are some of my personal favorites.

eLearning Industry is a site that contains great articles written by various people in the industry. This site covers a wide range of eLearning as well as training topics. My organization is just really jumping into the eLearning community so I find this site helpful to spark ideas or gain further insight.

e-Learning Heroes is a site powered by the software Articulate. I love this site because it provides examples of cool new eLearning designs and PPT templates. This is not only a site for e-Learning it also has a lot of other resources that are appropriate for those creating instructor led training. The rapid e-Learning blog offers a lot of great tips and tricks as well. This site is very useful if you have an Articulate membership as you are able to actually download Articulate and PPT templates directly to your computer. Working for an organization that has a high demand of creating training materials, this has been a wonderful find and a great resource I use almost daily.

Lastly, the Instructional Design Central blog has always been one of my favorite finds. There is a wide array of interesting resources and a vast overview of instructional design basics. A very helpful article I found when just jumping into the ID world can be found here. This is a post that breaks down some helpful Instructional Design acronyms so if you are new to the ID field this may be a helpful read.