Comments on: Why Bother with Instructional Design? http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/ News & Notes on eLearning, training, and technology Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gary Hegenbart http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/#comment-665 Gary Hegenbart Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:03:54 +0000 http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-665 Ron, To me the main difference is that the Instructional Designer is primarily concerned focused on what to train, how to train it, and how to determine people learned. A courseware developer on the other hand focuses on how the training materials are put together, usually in an online course. In reality, they are often the same person and the distinction between them is very blurry. Also, Courseware developers may not have any background in instructional design, but no how to use development tools. Gary Ron,
To me the main difference is that the Instructional Designer is primarily concerned focused on what to train, how to train it, and how to determine people learned. A courseware developer on the other hand focuses on how the training materials are put together, usually in an online course. In reality, they are often the same person and the distinction between them is very blurry. Also, Courseware developers may not have any background in instructional design, but no how to use development tools.

Gary

]]> By: Ron http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/#comment-656 Ron Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:11:47 +0000 http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-656 Question for you, what is the difference between an Instructional Designer and Courseware Developer? Question for you, what is the difference between an Instructional Designer and Courseware Developer?

]]> By: Gary Hegenbart http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/#comment-618 Gary Hegenbart Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:33:54 +0000 http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-618 It's been a couple of months, but I just found out Tony Karrer responded to this post on his blog. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/02/safety-training-design.html Tony makes some valid points about why we do need Instructional Design. Thanks to B.J. Schone for letting me know. It’s been a couple of months, but I just found out Tony Karrer responded to this post on his blog. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/02/safety-training-design.html
Tony makes some valid points about why we do need Instructional Design.
Thanks to B.J. Schone for letting me know.

]]> By: Rebuttal: Why Bother with Instructional Design? « eLearning Development News http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/#comment-606 Rebuttal: Why Bother with Instructional Design? « eLearning Development News Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:13:44 +0000 http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-606 [...] Why Bother with Instructional Design? Posted February 15, 2008 In my last post I stated instructional design didn’t matter for instructor-led training because trainers do [...] [...] Why Bother with Instructional Design? Posted February 15, 2008 In my last post I stated instructional design didn’t matter for instructor-led training because trainers do [...]

]]> By: Gary Hegenbart http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-bother-with-instructional-design/#comment-604 Gary Hegenbart Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:52:06 +0000 http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-604 Here's another good response to the Big Question: http://writersgateway.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/instructional-design-if-when-and-how-much-my-response/ Well worth the read. Gary Here’s another good response to the Big Question:
http://writersgateway.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/instructional-design-if-when-and-how-much-my-response/

Well worth the read.

Gary

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