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Instructional design

Guide with resources on instructional design & student engagement for distance learning

Learning Theory Basics

"Learning Theory describes how students absorb, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained".  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education)

Learning Theories

 

         Overview taken from: http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories

Resources @ BUas Library

Interested in taking your training program to the online space? In this course, join instructor Samantha Calamari as she steps through how to design engaging e-learning content that connects with a diverse set of participants. 

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Instructional design (ID) models are frameworks that help you create quality training. In this course, instructional design expert Dr. Joe Pulichino explores some of the most salient models of ID, illuminating the connections between learning and ID. Joe dives into common models such as ADDIE and SAM, and provides examples of when each model might be most appropriate for producing engaging and effective instructional materials. Plus, he shares how key learning theories can guide your ID efforts, as well as how rapid prototyping can help you boost your efficiency as you design your training.

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NOTE  For more videos on the various aspects of instructional design please check our database LinkedIn Learning. You can search for (combinations of) concepts like "instructional design", elearning/e-learning, "blended learning", "distance learning" etc.. Use the double quotation marks ("  ") when you search for concepts that exist of more than one word.         

The Library offers access to a large number of full-text electronic journals and magazines on (online) education.

Metasearch

If you search via Metaseach you will be searching journal articles in, amongst others, databases like Business Source Ultimate, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Emerald, Sage, Springer, Science Direct, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. You can limit your search results on the left side of the Search Results screen, for example by Full Text and/or Peer Reviewed, or select Academic Journals and/or Magazines. Under the link Publications you will find the most relevant individual journal titles.  

List of (e-)journals

If you are interested in a specific journal title or titles on a specific topic you might use the overview of all (e-)journals available via the Library.

Journal Citation Index

One of the options when searching for the 'best' journal on a specific topic, for example (online) education, is the Journal Citation Index (Clarivate). It ranks the quality of journals of, amongst others, the category Education & Educational Research based on their journal impact factor (JIF). Some examples of journals on (online) education with a JIF:

Some journals/magazines without JIF: