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Ensure Your Instructional Design Stands Up to Learning Science

Learning science is a professional imperative for instructional designers. In fact, instructional design is applied learning science. To create effective learning experiences that engage, we need to know how learning works and what facilitates and hinders it. We need to track the underlying research and articulate how our designs reflect what is known. Otherwise, how can we claim to be scrutable in our approaches?

Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application distills the current scope of learning science into an easy-to-read primer.

Good instructional design makes learning as simple as possible by removing distractions, minimizing the cognitive load, and chunking necessary information into digestible bits. But our aim must go beyond enabling learners to recite facts to empowering them to make better decisions—decisions about what to do, when, and how. This book prepares you to design learning experiences that ensure retention over time and transfer to the appropriate situations.

Gain insights into:

• Providing spaced practice and reflection

• Tapping into motivation and challenge to build learner confidence

• Using performance-support tools, social learning, and humor appropriately

Prompts at the end of each chapter will spark your thinking about how to use these concepts and more in your daily work.

Written by Clark N. Quinn, author of Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths and Superstitions, this book is perfect for anyone who strives for their instruction to stand up to learning science.

Book Details
ISBN: 9781952157455
Pages: 144
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Formats: Paperback, PDF
Product Code: 112102
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Learning Science Researcher, Author, and Facilitator
Clark Quinn’s new book offers compelling reasons for using learning science to inform your practice. The structure of the book follows an ingenious path from the whys (how we process and store information) to the hows. Learning Science for Instructional Designers is concise, understandable, and exceedingly valuable.
Head, Global Learning Design and Learning Sciences at a global healthcare company, and Co-Author, Evidence-Informed Learning Design
Clark Quinn paints a holistic, nuanced picture of the learning sciences landscape with all its cognitive, affective, and meta-cognitive hues. This book is a must-have for anyone involved in learning experience design as it shows why and how to consider the whole picture, helping you improve your daily practice by simply using the clear, practical ‘learnings’ throughout the book.
Research-Inspired Learning Consultant
Clark Quinn’s book Learning Science for Instructional Designers is a delicious and irresistible box of chocolates for all who want to architect effective learning. Focused on the practical and covering an amazing breadth of science, this well-crafted book whizzes by delightfully, from one choice nougat to the next. The perfect pocket-sized guide to learning science!
Author, Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning, CEO, Allen Interactions
Studying research journals, reviewing experimental designs, and checking the validity of statistical analyses not your thing? Clark Quinn comes to your rescue! In this easy-to-read survey of decades of research, Clark scours the breadth of relevant studies, extracts the primary insights, and suggests the means to make your designs informed and powerful. As both a refresher for experienced designers and an easy-to-understand introduction for newcomers, Learning Science for Instructional Designers is a comprehensive guide to science-based instructional design.
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Will there be an electronic version of the book? Thank you and can't wait to read it. :--)
Claudia, happy to say the answer is 'yes'; PDF from ATD, or Kindle from Amazon.
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