The blogs or resource sites that I have found can be a good resource to look on when need help in trying to become an Instructional Designer. The first blog was Instructional Design for Beginners- What Motivates People to Learn? The blogs has some very interesting and helpful information for a person that is new to the field of Instructional Design. One of the important things that was mentioned was the John Keller's ARCS Model of Motivational Design. The ARCS stands for Attention, Relevance, Confidence and Satisfaction. I believe an ID needs this model incorporated in their work as well as keep in mind about who will need to understand this type of learning or are new to online classes. This model shows an new instructional designer what it takes to get their audience attention when they are new to online teaching.(http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/10/instructional-design-for-beginners-what-motivates-people-to-learn/)
The second source is Constructing Effective Online-Learning Environments via the Community of Inquiry (COI) Framework. This blog shows how the environment of learning can help a person in their learning and how it can be set up to make their online learning experience better and with out any hassle. The online learning experience can be very difficult to a person that has never had an online class. They would have to be taught and showed how it works and benefit them because they are used to being in a classroom setting physically and being in a public place or at home learning with out the teacher being there in front of them. This blog is very useful for IDs that are new to the field and are designing the curriculum. I like the fact that it has a chart explains the elements, categories and Indicators (examples only). People who are new to online learning will have to be explained as of how online learning can benefit them, how the information is going to be delivered and what tools can help them in their learning. As we all know the elearning experience can be challenging but its a very good useful tool because the physical classroom can become extinct one day and people would have to learn by online courses. (http://www.iddblog.org/?p=841)
The last resource is a blog called Create Engaging Elearning Courses You Can be Proud of. This blog talks about once you have your participants, how you can help them engaged in the course as they are learning the information. It shows two categories for the participants which are either passive or active engagement. Passive engagement is sharing information among each other in the learning environment. Active engagement is when the perosn uses the information from the resources. In elearning , it seems like most people need to be Passive engaged when they are trying to learn the information from different sources in order to grasp the information and stored for effect use later. this information would be useful when an ID is creating designing their cirriculum by keeping in mind that people would want to be able to use the information by having examples and being explained how to become an active engagement person when they need to learn information from different resources.(http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/create-engaging-e-learning-courses-you-can-be-proud-of/)
