On today’s episode, we are joined by Peter Shea, the Creator and Chief Admin of Instructional Designers in Education. This 14K member online learning community is an incredible place for learning about instructional design. Pete is going to take us through his origin story, where the idea came from, how the group has evolved, and lessons for you if you are interested in starting your own group.

How do you get your SMEs to buy into an idea? One method is to provide a demo of the final product. This podcast episode is a sneak peak of the new course, Collaborating and Building Relationships with SMEs.

If you were to ask an instructional designer to describe their job, you’ll hear about designing the online learning experience, collaborating with subject matter experts, developing products, and creating learning outcomes, objectives, assessments, and content. One phrase that you won’t hear about is how artistic the instructional design role can be. While I’ve always had this preliminary thought, it wasn’t until working on a recent project where the light bulb went off over my head. Instructional design to me is artistic in nature and here’s how I arrived at that conclusion.

Do you ever feel disillusioned with L&D? Are you passionate about instructional design, but worry that spark you once had is fading? In today's show, Ant Pugh shares how he lost his way, details the changes he made, and reveals why he currently enjoys his work more than ever.

How does a former teacher become an instructional designer, Camtasia wizard, and voice actor for Netflix? On today's episode, we'll hear about the fascinating experiences of Alex Mitts and how we can apply his tips into our own ID journeys.

One thing I wasn’t expecting when the book came out, was how many of you would reach out to me about your dreams of writing a book. This seems to be a bucket list item for many of you so I figured I would peel back the curtain. I’ll share with you my 5 essential tips with how I wrote the book in 6 months without losing my sanity.

As instructional designers, we should be using data to help inform our decisions when it comes the learning experiences of our courses and programs. Data can tell us so much about our students with learning behaviors, learning analytics, and even instructional design principles. How do we interpret this data though? One compelling case is to use Educational Data Mining (EDM). Joining us today is Smruti Sudarshan, an eLearning Training Specialist atLinkedIn, and she'll guide us through everything we need to know about EDM.

Get ready for the future! On today's episode, I share 5 ideas on where I think instructional design is moving towards. Some of them have been implemented in the courses I teach, and others in the courses I design. The best part of all is that you can replicate any of these ideas into your courses right now.

“What does an instructional designer actually do?” A quick Google search will pop up some amazing videos, podcasts, and blogs about a day in the life of an instructional designer from a corporate perspective or a freelance perspective. I didn’t see the same types of results though for higher education, and I have an educated guess as to why: it’s ridiculously hard to describe the typical day.