Dear Instructional Designer

I’m super excited to bring you my conversation with Jennifer Maddrell, the founder of the Designers for Learning, a non-... Read more

In our last episode with Simon, we segue from using Adapt (an open source authoring tool) to the Open Source Way and how... Read more

In this episode, I take a walk down memory lane and talk about my journey into freelancing. I talk about how I fell into... Read more

Today, I sit down with Hadiya Nuriddin, an instructional design and training veteran, who now owns her own consultancy, ... Read more

In this episode, I respond to a listener request for more talk about creating effective, interesting animated video. I c... Read more

In this episode, I sit down with Cara North, instructional designer at a major state university. Cara talks to us about ... Read more

This episode, I talk with Zsolt Olah, one of my ID heroes, about two different projects that illustrate how context is k... Read more

This episode, I am talking with Devlin Peck, a recent instructional design graduate student who jumped into freelancing ... Read more

This episode, I sit down with Leslie Sandoval, instructional designer of 11 years, and we talk higher ed and a project s... Read more

In this episode, I interview the fabulous, versatile, and prolific Mel Milloway. Mel talks to us about development work ... Read more

This one is for all of you Instructional Design subredditors who are teachers looking to break into instructional design... Read more

This episode, I sit down with our "newbiest" ID yet, Ellen Hayes, and we talk about her process building an online cours... Read more

In this episode, I talk about prototyping tools that I've used in the past, and why prototyping is a useful communicatio... Read more

This episode, I’ve got a real treat: a cutting edge tech project from my friend, David Fusco! David’s interested in emer... Read more

In this episode I talk about game makers and why they might be a good option to help you start building learning experie... Read more

Twine is an open source tool for creating interactive, non-linear stories. It’s a tool for interactive fiction and story... Read more

In this episode, I try my hand at answering one of the toughest questions around becoming a freelancer: How does that wh... Read more

In this episode, I interview EJ LeBlanc, ID business owner, avid experimenter, and a real model for continuing learning ... Read more

If you haven’t heard of it, Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, mul... Read more

The first of three (I say four in audio) episodes with Simon Date, Adapt developer extraordinaire! Simon took me up on m... Read more