84 Tips on New Instructional Design for New Instructional Technology

Today’s learning professionals have myriad technologyoptions for designing, developing, and delivering content, from virtual labs andgraphic novels to social media and wearable devices. Even artificialintelligence promises to be an effective learning technology in the nearfuture.

But no matter how powerful and fancy the technology, wemust use effective instructional design. So how do you effectively designinstruction for new instructional technologies? How do you ensure that thedesign drives the technology and not the other way around? And perhaps mostimportantly, how do you deal with managers, subject-matter experts, and otherswho insist that you need to use somegreat new instructional technology?

In this eBook 21 learning professionals who havesuccessfully melded new instructional design with new instructional technologiesgive us their best tips. Regardless of what technologies you’re usingcurrently, you’re bound to find tips that will help you design more effectivelyfor those technologies. The 84 tips cover topics including:

• Puttinglearning goals and needs before technology
• Planningfor and managing new instructional technology
• Developingwith and blending instructional technologies
• Leveraginginstructional technology for language learning
• Learninggames and gamification
• Drivinglearning with graphic novels
• Makinglearning mobile
• UsingMOOCs
• Sharinglearning-technology expertise