What I have Learned

"What I have Learned"

Well, it has been quite a ride this instructional design field has been. There have been ups, there have been downs, there have been late nights and early mornings. But all and all I have survived and I have enjoyed. I have learned so much about instructional design and about myself this year. Here are a few things I have learned about instructional design:

• It is never done because there is always more to do.
• Evaluation and assessments are so crucial to the effectiveness of the design and they should be done early to save a lot of backtracking.
• It is nice to work with people you trust :)
• Designing instruction requires seeing the instruction from multiple points of view, and
• An instructional designer is constantly asking themselves 1) "Where are am going?"2) "How will we get there?" and 3) "How will we know when we have arrived?"
• There is so much more to learn. This is only the beginning.