As more companies expand their digital learning initiatives, the demand for instructional designers has surged. Once a niche role in academia, instructional design is now a core function in corporate ...

When she joined the University of Delaware Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS) digital learning team in 2016, Aviva Heyn had no idea how significant her work would become. One of ...

There is an increasing number of online courses in higher education and an increasing demand in quality instruction and course environment design. As a result, many higher education institutions ...

Auburn University has introduced 35 online programs over the last few years. To get them off the ground, in summer 2015 the Alabama public university set up an internal Auburn Online unit, currently ...

Instructional design firm iDesign has unveiled a new competency-based education program for learner experience professionals. The certificate program, called LX Pathways, covers core competencies for ...

Organisations including a consortium of 24 Scottish councils, the Future Electronics corporation in Montreal, Canada, and even the British Army are queuing up to gain the benefits of the íMore than ...

When J. Ann Dumas, now a senior lecturer in Pennsylvania State University’s department of film-video and media studies, was an undergraduate in the 1970s, she was among a small handful of students on ...

The pandemic has fundamentally altered approaches to work, teaching and study. These shifts have accelerated an already growing demand for online courses as learners seek alternative methods of ...

Given the rapid changes in online learning during the pandemic, many people are familiar with the concepts of asynchronous (i.e., pre-created, learn whenever) and synchronous (in a virtual space, with ...

Often, I hear uncertainty about the future framed as a debate around how people learn. There is ongoing speculation — by training and development experts within organizations as a conversation among ...