The Change through Instructional Design

Instructional design is creating educational and training materials to facilitate learning, and it involves analyzing learner needs, designing instructional materials, and evaluating the effectiveness of the materials. In my first blog, I will consider three resources that help to educate on various ways to incorporate instructional design: a newsletter and two blogs. 

The E-learning newsletter is vital because it gives insight into education and instructional design and how e-learning technology has been improving to aid our learners better. As an educator, we must find innovative and engaging ways to enhance daily lessons for our students. As an instructional designer, I learned that change is inevitable to improve craft and to make oneself more relevant. The brick-and-mortar structure was for years, but now there has been a drastic shift where online delivery is the most widely used method of teaching and learning.

Nicole Legault's Blog on change management tips was interesting. Instructional designers are agents of change and know how to relay changes to people with little to no resistance. For a company to thrive and grow, the leading team uses various techniques to communicate the change, explain the benefits of sharing, and explain the reason for the change. Change is not a bad thing, and it helps us to grow.

Finally, why would I want to become an instructional designer? What are the career paths that I can choose from? In the article, A Day in the Life of an Instructional Designer, in the SNU Blog, the author offered an overview that would give me a clear understanding of the jobs available in the field as an instructional designer working on a day-to-day basis. It also highlighted its importance as we help gear the school and education system in planning student instruction.