chapter 1

On Instructional Design and E-Learning Pie

In this chapter …

         • What is instructional design?

         • How many ways can you spell ID?

         • What four areas do you need to understand in order to be a well-rounded e-learning professional? (Hint: there’s pie involved!)

As instructional designers, most of us have a hard time describing what we do to the rest of the world. Instructional designer is not a job title that resonates even mildly with most people. So how can we describe our work more accurately? Looking at textbook ...

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