Demystifying Instructional Design
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInstructional designers specializes in the creation of learning solutions. In this podcast, Rebecca J Hogue interviews instructional designers from a variety of different fields, with the goal of gaining a better understanding of what instructional designers do. The role of instructional designers varies across contexts including formal education, corporate sector, healthcare, non-profit, military, government, and more. Further the types of learning solutions created by instructional designers varies including learning programs, semester length courses, short workshops, eLearning, and job aids. Join Rebecca as she demystifies instructional design.
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S3E6: Stephanie Smith: Order Takers versus Consultants
June 05, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBStephanie Smith is the Learning and Design Manager for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. located in Westminster Colorado. She has experience in training and development for a variety of industries including energy, safety, software, sales, customer service, medical management industries. Specializing in eLearning, learning architecture, learning platforms, and learning management systems, Stephanie has a proven track record of successful implementation of learning syste...
S3E5: Jeremy Tuttle ~ Answer prompted, Answer given
March 18, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBJeremy Tuttle is the Director of Learning Design for Niche Academy where he leads a fantastic team of creative people. He has designed instruction for asynchronous online delivery since 2016 and has been in the education space since 2009. While At Niche Academy he has overseen the creation of over 400 tutorials, and for his previous employer he wrote microcredentials on topics like Criteria and Rubrics and Formative/Summative Assessments. He has a Bachelors of Science in Digital Film and Vid...
S3E4: ChatGPT - the potential is as vast as the challenges and concerns - a conversation with Autumm Caines and Lance Eaton
February 05, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode I interview Autumm Caines and Lance Eaton about ChatGPT and how they see it affecting higher ed and instructional design from a variety of perspectives. This episode is insightful and also humorous at times. Autumm Caines: Autumm Caines is a liminal space. Part technologist, part artist, part manager, part synthesizer she aspires to be mostly educator. You will find Autumm at the place where different disciplines and fields intersect, always on the threshold, and trying to ...
S3E3: Mindsmith ~ Simple is beautiful
January 02, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBMindsmith is an AI-powered microlearning authoring tool built for the average user. They focus on intuitive interfaces and collaboration that empowers anyone to create beautiful elearning lessons/trainings, whether you are a manager of a small team, a full-time instructional designer, or a busy college professor. Their BookerAIᵝ features enable users to overcome writer's block and the intimidation of starting lessons from scratch. Currently, users can generate outlines, individual cards, or...
S3E2: Darlesa Cahoon and Janet Lee - Trashflix and Teacher Things
December 05, 2022 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBJanet Lee (Janet’s LinkedIn Profile) is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. Currently, she is a Lead Learning Architect and inspirat...
S3E1: Janet Lee and Darlesa Cahoon are analyzing instructional design
October 30, 2022 21:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBIn this episode I interview Janet Lee who works in higher education and Darlesa Cahoon who works in the corporate sector. We explore how instructional design is the same and how it is different across the different contexts. Sometimes we think it will be completely different only to discover that it is actually quite alike. This is the first part of a series. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patreon account to help support this podcast financially: patreon.com/rjhogue
Season 3 Promo
August 17, 2022 14:00 - 1 minute - 938 KBWelcome to Demystifying Instructional Design - a podcast where I interview instructional designers about what they do. I'm Rebecca Hogue, your podcast host. For season three I'm going to do a something a little different - I'm going to be interviewing two instructional designers at the same time - from different sectors - to help compare how instructional design is different in one sector versus the other. My first interview will be with Janet Lee whose work focuses in high ed instruction...
S2E15: Yorel Stephens ~ Fulfilling, Fun, & Fruitful
July 15, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBYorel L. P. Stephens, MPA, MA. Ed is an Adult Learning and Training consultant with 20+ years of experience serving education, non-profit, and corporate organizations. A graduate of the University of Phoenix, Wilmington College, and Lincoln University she specializes in bringing strategic goals to life through learning experiences, coaching instructional designers, and transforming complex content into simplistic learning. She excels in pulling the best out of her SMEs to create quality dri...
S2E14: Robin Sargent ~ Just take action and dare to share
June 28, 2022 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBRobin Sargent PhD, is an entrepreneur, instructional designer, and former professor, recognized as a leader in the instructional design community. She is the owner and founder of IDOL courses, IDOL Talent, and VITAL courses. IDOL courses is the trade school that serves clients through IDOL Talent while developing the next generation of creative learning designers. Business Insider heralds the IDOL courses AcademySM as "one of the best choices out there if you're serious about starting a care...
S2E13: Stan Skrabut - Where instructional technology and design meet
June 19, 2022 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBStan Skrabut is a card carrying lifelong learner who has spent his career helping people and organizations achieve improved performance. He is a scholar, teacher, author, veteran, martial artist, and avid reader. Throughout his working life, he has changed roles and responsibilities countless times. He worked as a guard, organizational trainer, instructional technologist, webmaster, systems programmer, lecturer, and director. He uses informal learning, especially reading, as a way to improve...
S2E12: Jean Dengler ~ It's so much more than design
June 07, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBJean Dengler is a Senior Trainer with Service Corporation International. In her role she delivers a variety of training programs to a diverse group of associates using a virtual platform designed in Adobe Connect. While her primary role is to facilitate training, she considers herself fortunate to have the support of a fantastic team who offers her opportunities to develop learning content, design virtual classrooms and brainstorm innovative ways in which to enhance both training content and...
S2E11: Rachael Assignon - Adding value to asynchronous solutions
May 30, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBRachael Assignon started her career as a foreign language teacher. She transitioned to corporate learning and development and has experience in automotive, health care, finance, and military. As an instructional designer and facilitator, she finds there is a lot of crossover between teaching and corporate learning. The outcome for both is the same: creating an environment where learners of all ages thrive. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patreon account to help suppo...
S2E10: Eva Conover - Bridge between technologists and users
May 10, 2022 16:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBEva is a lifelong trainer, analyst, intermittent project manager and relatively new ID. She found my passion for instructional design later in life, proving to herself it’s never too late to make a change. She finds that instructional design allows both her tech geek side and creative side room to grow. Her niche has always been in healthcare and systems. She is very fortunate to have had the opportunity grow my career in tandem with the changes in healthcare and technology. She came to ID h...
S2E9: Janet Lee Part 2 - Purposely progressing through any challenge
April 19, 2022 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBJanet Lee is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. Currently, she is a Learning Architect and inspirational speaker working on various...
S2E8: Janet Lee Part 1: Always ask for help
April 04, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBJanet Lee is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. Currently, she is a Learning Architect and inspirational speaker working on various...
S2E7: Autumm Caines is a liminal space (@autumm)
March 21, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBAutumm Caines is an Instructional Designer at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. She has earned an M.A. in Educational Technology from The Ohio State University and B.S. in Communication Technology from Eastern Michigan University and about 15 years of experience working in educational technology and instructional design. Autumm’s scholarly and research interests include blended/hybrid and online learning, open education, digital literacy/citizenship with a focus on equity and access, an...
S2E6: Emma Stodel uses sports psychology principles to enhance behaviour
March 08, 2022 04:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBEmma J. Stodel, PhD, is the Founder and Principal of Learning 4 Excellence. Emma is an educator dedicated to improving performance and facilitating excellence. Her passion is to create meaningful learning experiences that elicit real change in the learner, leading to organizational, professional, and/or personal change. With an academic and professional background in both educational and sport psychology, Emma has a unique skill set she uses to build engaging eLearning solutions grounded in ...
S2E5: Greg Dillon - Creating Social Presence
February 26, 2022 18:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBGregory Dillon is a Learning Designer at Brown University in Providence, RI where he lives with his border collie iuna. He holds masters degrees in Instructional Design and Portuguese from the University of Massachusetts. Gregory’s work is primarily guided by Freirean principles, digital critical pedagogy, and open educational practices. He believes deeply in building community and its benefits to the learning experience. Gregory lived in Brazil and has trained Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian d...
S2E4: Mary Helen Culbertson - hires instructional designers
February 18, 2022 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBMary Helen Culbertson is the Vice President of People and Culture at iDesign. After working in elementary and higher education, she moved into instructional design before transitioning into Human Resources in 2019. In her position at iDesign, Mary Helen uses her knowledge of instructional design to recruit talented individuals to work with iDesign partners to develop high-quality online course offerings. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patreon account to help support...
S2E3: Lance Eaton Part 3 - Thinking Beyond
February 04, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBLance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service-learning. His musings, reflections, an...
S2E2: Lance Eaton Part 2 - Highlighting the importance of self-care
January 27, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBLance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service-learning. His musings, reflections, an...
S2E1: Lance Eaton Part 1 - I am a DJ and ...
January 17, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBLance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service-learning. His musings, reflections, an...
Rob Pearson - Is designing at a systems level
December 11, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBRob is an educator, learning experience designer, and documentary filmmaker. He has a rich and varied work history with experiences in health care, higher education, not-for-profit, and small and large private sector organizations. Sparked during his film production studies at York University, a linking theme throughout Rob’s career has been the role of media and technology as an enabler of learning. During the tech boom of the early 2000s, Rob held senior roles in several Ed-Tech start-ups...
Paula Thorsland - Being as effective and efficient as possible
November 24, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBPaula Thorsland holds a BA in English and education, and an MEd in instructional design. She has worked in the education field for 25 years as an instructor and more recently as an senior instructional designer and Manager of the eLearning and Instructional Design Team at UMass Boston. Her focus is to help faculty learn to use technology successfully in their online and face-to-face courses, while ensuring that course objectives are being met. In her free time, Paula is an avid sailor and mo...
Darlesa Cahoon - Literally walking on runways
November 05, 2021 19:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBDarlesa has been an instructional designer and learning technologist for over 15 years with 10 of those working for the Port of Seattle at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. She holds an MA in Instructional Technology from University of Colorado at Denver. She gets excited about imagining and developing online, hybrid, and instructor-led learning experiences which grab attention, encourage reflection, get learners laughing, sharing, and playing and motivating them to improve their live...
Arthur Harrington
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBArthur is a Learning and Development professional who has been in the instructional design field for over 20 years. He started his career training radiologists at mass general hospital in Boston. Arthur earned a masters in education at UMass Boston and returned to his alma mater to earn an MBA. Arthur has led the training operations for several high tech organizations and currently leads a team of technical trainers and writers.
Arthur Harrington - Detectives and Problem Solvers
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBArthur is a Learning and Development professional who has been in the instructional design field for over 20 years. He started his career training radiologists at mass general hospital in Boston. Arthur earned a masters in education at UMass Boston and returned to his alma mater to earn an MBA. Arthur has led the training operations for several high tech organizations and currently leads a team of technical trainers and writers. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patr...
Caroline Frankel
October 12, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBCaroline Frankel received her MEd in Instructional Design and graduate certificate in Instructional and Learning Design from UMass Boston in May 2020. She currently works at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts as a Senior Instructional Designer. Caroline has provided leadership to her institution in online learning, as well as remote instruction initiatives following COVID-19. She's worked closely with the various clinical programs at her university...
Caroline Frankel - What instructional designers do
October 12, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBCaroline Frankel received her MEd in Instructional Design and graduate certificate in Instructional and Learning Design from UMass Boston in May 2020. She currently works at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts as a Senior Instructional Designer. Caroline has provided leadership to her institution in online learning, as well as remote instruction initiatives following COVID-19. She's worked closely with the various clinical programs at her university...
Terry Greene relates trains, mini-vans, and painting to Instructional Design
September 28, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBTerry Greene is Senior eLearning Designer at Trent University. He holds a B.Ed. in Elementary Education from the University of Alberta and a M.Sc. in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of North Dakota. He is interested in both the cutting and trailing edges of technology in education. Especially those uses that increase the human element in technology-enabled learning. Hint, hint, those are probably the more open ones. Show notes at DemystifyingInstructionalDesign.com Su...
Karen Bellnier - What instructional designers do
September 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBKaren has over 20 years of experience in the learning field. She led the process of creating a formal online learning program at the Community College of Rhode Island. At Johnson & Wales University, she created training faculty for online course development and delivery and worked closely with faculty developing online courses and managed a team of instructional designers and technologists. She has served as a reviewer for Blackboard's Exemplary Course Program, OLC Innovate & Accelerate conf...
Karen Bellnier asks 'what is your goal?'
September 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBKaren has over 20 years of experience in the learning field. She led the process of creating a formal online learning program at the Community College of Rhode Island. At Johnson & Wales University, she created training faculty for online course development and delivery and worked closely with faculty developing online courses and managed a team of instructional designers and technologists. She has served as a reviewer for Blackboard's Exemplary Course Program, OLC Innovate & Accelerate conf...
Julie Havill - Getting into the nitty gritty
September 14, 2021 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBIn this episode, Rebecca interviews Julie Havill. Julie has been working in learning and development for close to twenty years. She's worked with people from around the world using modalities from web-based training to virtual reality. She has a Master's Degree in Adult Education and currently works for a company that provides learning services to its clients. Julie lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana USA. She believes that when people can be their best in the jobs, they can be their bes...
Julie Havill - What instructional designers do
September 14, 2021 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBIn this episode, Rebecca interviews Julie Havill. Julie has been working in learning and development for close to twenty years. She's worked with people from around the world using modalities from web-based training to virtual reality. She has a Master's Degree in Adult Education and currently works for a company that provides learning services to its clients. Julie lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana USA. She believes that when people can be their best in the jobs, they can be their bes...
Matt Crosslin - What instructional designers do
September 12, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode I interview Matt Crosslin. Matt Crosslin, Ph.D. is currently an Instructional Designer II at Orbis Education, where he works with faculty to create student-centered, active learning-based courses. He is also part-time faculty at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches Masters and Doctoral courses in Educational Technology and Instructional Design. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of North Texas, a Master of Education in Ed...
Matt Crosslin - Thinking About Pedagogy and Technology
September 12, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode I interview Matt Crosslin. Matt Crosslin, Ph.D. is currently an Instructional Designer II at Orbis Education, where he works with faculty to create student-centered, active learning-based courses. He is also part-time faculty at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches Masters and Doctoral courses in Educational Technology and Instructional Design. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of North Texas, a Master of Education in Ed...
Interviewing Myself - Rebecca J. Hogue
September 05, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutes - 8.52 MBIn this first episode of Demystifying Instructional Design I begin by interviewing myself. Discover who I am and why I started this podcast, as well as what advice I would give to those who are new to instructional design. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patreon account to help support this podcast financially: patreon.com/rjhogue