Obsidian Blog
Topics range from elearning tools and resources, to instructional design and the science of learning.
Back to Basics: Different Types of Learning Delivery
Posted Oct 21, 2015 by Heather Carter
When analyzing your audience and determining learning goals, don’t forget about your delivery strategy. How you are going to deliver the course? Do students need to be face-to-face with the instructors? Will learners have access to computers? What resources already exist? What cost considerations are there? Here’s a breakdown of the three most frequent approaches we use:
Back to Basics: What is ADDIE?
Posted Sep 14, 2015 by Heather Carter
We’ve covered some of the basic concepts in Instructional Design and Terminology in our previous Back To Basics segments. This week we wanted to discuss one of the most common instructional design models, ADDIE.
Back to Basics: Instructional Design Terminology
Posted Sep 1, 2015 by Heather Carter
This week, we wanted to cover some common terms that you are bound to hear in almost instructional design setting. This list isn’t meant to be all inclusive, but it’s a great starting point to give you the initial vocabulary you need.
Gamification
Posted Aug 27, 2015 by Heather Carter
The term “gamification” seems to be popping up everywhere lately, and for good reason. What is gamification? In a nutshell, it’s incorporating gaming into learning. It could actually be developing an instructional game for a course, but it’s typically used to describe adding game-like ideas and activities, such as leaderboards and badges learners earn after completing activities.
Back to Basics: What is Instructional Design
Posted Aug 14, 2015 by Heather Carter
With our Instructional Designers, Learning Strategists, and others throughout the company, we are developing a brief blog series to tackle the basic instructional design principles the way we see them.
The Science of Learning: Thoughts From The Experts
Posted Jun 6, 2015 by Monica Savage
The first session I attended at ATD ICE after the Opening Session was a panel on the Science of Learning. The panel was facilitated by Justin Brusino (@atdSciLearn, @atdLearnTech) and included Sebastian Bailey (@DrSebBailey), Julie Dirksen (@usablelearning), Karl Kapp (@kkapp), Alice Kim (@AliceSNKim), and Art Kohn.
Are You Going to mLearnCon 2015?
Posted May 28, 2015 by Stephen Victor
This year’s mLearnCon 2015 Mobile Learning Conference and Expo is on June 10-12 in Austin, TX. Obsidian Learning will be there both exhibiting and presenting. Erik Pettine will be manning Booth 319, and Monica Savage will be presenting on “Reshaping your mlearning workflow.”” Here’s the description of her talk:
Best and Brightest
Posted May 21, 2015 by Stephen Victor
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the Best and Brightest of them all?
ATD International Conference and Expo 2015: Will You Be There?
Posted May 14, 2015 by Monica Savage
Next week, I will be in Orlando for the ATD International Conference and Expo. I am used to attending the learning conferences by now, but this time I am very excited. The main reason is the keynote speakers, in particular Sugata Mitra and Erik Wahl. I am sure Andrea Jung will be good, but I am partial to the other two.
Serendipitous Learning
Posted Apr 26, 2015 by Monica Savage
I have been fascinated by the concept of serendipitous learning from the moment I first heard it. First of all, I love the word “serendipitous” and its meaning. I am not a very spontaneous person, and I like structure, so the thought of “fortunate happenstance” is beautiful to me.
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