Instructional Design for ELearning: Essential guide to creating successful eLearning courses

by Marina Arshavskiy

Instructional Design for Essential guide to creating successful eLearning courses is a powerful yet concise how-to resource to instructional design for eLearning, and a key tool for aspiring, new, and experienced instructional designers. If you need a basic understanding of what instructional design for eLearning is, this book is for you. The text includes comprehensive tables, questionnaires, checklists, templates, and other helpful visuals. In the Instructional Design for ELearning, you will discover how to apply the key principles behind creating engaging materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills they are being taught.

218 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 21, 2014

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really book of knowledge

I am new to the field if Instructional Design. I came from the pre-internet computing era, that became IT, then E-learning to Instructional Design. I am loving the work of an Instructual Designer and Developer, but working my way up practically I had not studied the theories behind Instructional Design. This is where this book comes in the theoretical and historic knowledge of the ID subject is great.

I learned where alot of the techniques, and why certain points the way they are. I would recomend this book to any one new to the subject, or trying to navigate the industry.

The only failing of this book, is the same problem I have currently in my job. People thing the changing a written book onto a PDF or MOBI and publishing it electronically is the same result. It is not where there are page breaks in the paper version, are not there on the kindle version. So chapters role together. Also in a paper version of the book I am sure you can do a knowledge check and flick to the answers at the back of the book together instant feedback. It is not tge same in the kindle version. I had to read through then look at the answers after I finished the book.

This is a great book, with lots of useful knowledge and techniques and real life examples/case studies. I would say in ID the format matters. In fairness to the author it was probobly written to be a paperback that was loaded to a kindle format. I wore recomend everyone buy the paperback version.

[Gregketch90 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Analysis of e-learning programs in 240 American universities and colleges shows that in 2002-2004. the most intensively virtual methods of teaching students are used in university business schools, somewhat less intensively in colleges with a four-year course of study, look at this for more. Approximately 58% of universities in the first and second rank and 50% of universities in the lower categories issue graduates of e-learning programs with master's degrees, bachelor's degrees and certificates of education.
At the same time, in universities of all categories, electronic master's programs attract more applicants than electronic bachelor's programs.

[Jessica Whittemore · Rating 3 out of 5]

VERY cursory summaries of different instructional design and elearning principles and strategies. Good as an overview, but so cursory that in some cases the conclusions drawn from the literature may be so abstracted as to no longer be completely accurate.

[Nazenin Yuzbasheva · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book presents general overview of ID; however, there is less coherence in this overview of different parts resulting in confusion and uncompleted understanding of the matters.

[Creviewer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent for novices

I thought this book was easy to read and highlights all the important aspects of ISD for professionals who are entering the field.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Lots of jargon, not many illustrations. Could be more visual. Basic content is helpful, though.

[Bronco Mania · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good general overview. Not too much depth.