This blog is one that I have been subscribed to for several
years. This site focuses specifically on
instructional technology. I have been
constructing courses that I teach for about six years, and have used many of
the tips and applied concepts from this blog throughout that time. Now as I study to do instructional design
full time, this blog will become ever more important.
The blog itself is very well laid out and easy to use. The posts are few are far between about every
few months, but what is posted is immediately useful. One post for example, was a list of free and
low cost LMS systems, this came in particularly handy when I was consult for a
company picking a new LMS. Another gave
reference to eLearning conferences around the world in 2012.
THE LEARNING
CIRCUITS BLOG---http://learningcircuits.blogspot.com/ (Now moved to the ASTD Learning Technologies
Blog… http://www.astd.org/Home/Publications/Blogs/Learning-Technologies-Blog.aspx)
Another blog that again I have used for some time is the
Learning Circuits Blog. Again it is a
blog that focuses on Instructional Technology.
For older posts reference the learning circuits blog and for new content
the ASTD Learning Technologies Blog.
This blog offers a wider view of Instructional Technology
as it looks from both a business and academic point of view. A current focus of this blog that has
produced quite a few guest blog posts is that of mobile learning. It covers everything from considerations to
limitations of Mobile Learning. One
recent article that provides an example of the versatility of this blog is a
recent post called ‘Think like a product manager’. This article focus on how as instructional
design folks we sometimes do not look at the marketability of what we design.
This last one that I wanted to share is not a blog per say
but a review and hub of educational and instructional design blogs. It allows you to see the most recent post
from many of these blogs and then provides a link to the blog itself. Some of the examples are articles and
subsequent links to articles about bad design, new technologies, teaching
methods, and the list goes on and on.
This is definitely something to bookmark and refer back to
regularly. Also one may want to bookmark
some of the subsequent blogs found on this page.
All of your blogs are of complete interest to me. As an instructional design novice, this is extra important to me to add to my ever growing list of resources. In particular, the last "blog" you posted about. A list of running blogs on instructional design, it is like a jackpot to me! Each link goes to something different, and I read through them, I not only found myself growing more interested in topics, but with writing down a list a questions I had about certain topics. This will most definitely be a site I visit often throughout my studies.
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