Tag: Instructional Design
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Should You Avoid “Teaching to the Test?”
I’ve always understood “teaching to the test” to mean a course is designed around a specific test. Obviously, an SAT prep course should be designed around the SAT and developing the skills to be successful with that assessment. So what’s the big deal? The term appears to be used only in cases where a class…
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Alignment in Instructional Design
Alignment is harmony among all the components of a learning unit, including your Learning Objectives (LOs), assessments, activities, and content. You could think of it like all the gears in a machine set up so they work together properly. Who Cares? You do. So do all your learners. If the components of your course, for…
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Free Download from Simple Instructional Design!
Chapter 2 (Learning Objectives) of my upcoming book, Simple Instructional Design, is now available as a free download!
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Simple Instructional Design: Behind the Book
It was early 2022 and we were all enjoying the slow march back to normalcy as COVID-19 lockdown was relaxed. I was leading a small, virtual train-the-trainer session on instructional design basics for a large university. We were halfway through an hour-long session and I was thinking, “This is a waste of everyone’s time. They’re…
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Instructional Design: Go Backwards for the Best Training
What’s the simplest thing you can do to improve your learning units? Go backwards! You’re confused. It’s normal. Let me explain… Backwards Design is a strategy for creating learning units that begins where most educators end: with the Learning Objectives. Learning units are whatever you’re teaching or training from which you want people to learn…
Athena Rayne Anderson 