Learning Lights - The Instructional Design, eLearning, and Training Podcast by Shafali Anand

Among all those who make eLearning Content Development possible, the most mysterious, presumably intractable, and often annoying to the ID, is the SME or the Subject Matter Expert. The ID-SME relationship is almost always caught in a storm. The SME thinks that the ID is too young, too inexperienced, too theoretical...etc., and the ID finds the SME stubborn and headstrong, unwilling to change, infuriatingly inflexible...and so on. But there is a method to this madness. In this episode, listen to 9 tips (3 each for the beginning, middle, and the end of your SME connection,) and remember to use them with your next SME to see your rocky-relationship transform into a synergistic, productive, and efficient teamwork. If you enjoy this episode, do share the Learning Lights podcast with others who would like it or find it useful. If you are listening to it on Apple Podcasts, please rate and review. I’d also love to “hear” your thoughts. If you leave your voice comment at http://anchor.fm/learninglights, I would love to answer your queries in a future episode of this podcast. And yes, if you and I are not connected on LinkedIn, please find me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafali-r-anand/ Thank you! ========================================================================================= Icon Art Credit: Ranjeet Anand (http://instagram.com/poetrywithpixels) Music Credits: From Song “Trophy Endorphins” by Andy G. Cohen released under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License =========================================================================================

The perfect storyboard is an illusion. But you already know this – don't you? You also know that storyboards are the craziest thing to create. They require: Creativity of all the four kinds (visual, textual, aural, and kinesthetic,) logic, smarts, empathy, passion, patience…and a few more attributes. In this episode, we discuss the important dos and don’ts of writing good visual descriptions, onscreen texts, and programming notes or interactivity descriptions. So if you are an instructional designer who has storyboarded at least once, then this episode can help you enhance your storyboarding skills. Warning: If you’ve never storyboarded before – this episode isn’t going to make a lot of sense to you. It assumes that you’ve been into eLearning storyboarding and want to go further. I’d like to thank Tripti Saun, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Mumbai, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tripti-saun-ba0052112/) for suggesting that I do a podcast on storyboarding.  If you enjoy this episode, please share the Learning Lights podcast with others who would like it or find it useful. If you are listening to it on Apple Podcasts, please rate and review. I’d also love to “hear” your thoughts. If you leave your voice comment at http://anchor.fm/learninglights, I would love to answer your queries in a future episode of this podcast. And yes, if you and I are not connected on LinkedIn, please find me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafali-r-anand/ Thank you! ========================================================================================= Icon Art Credit: Ranjeet Anand (http://instagram.com/poetrywithpixels) Music Credits: From Song “Trophy Endorphins” by Andy G. Cohen released under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License =========================================================================================

Episode 9 :: Are your biases preventing your courses and training programs from succeeding? Does your content suffer from any of the following mismatches? Content-audience mismatch Presentation-audience mismatch Theme-audience mismatch And these mismatches almost always happen because one of your biases acted up. In this episode, we will talk about audience or the reason why we engage in content-creation. We will discuss the three biases that we the content professionals may have and how these three biases could destroy a perfectly great course or training program. If you enjoy this episode, please share the Learning Lights podcast with others who would like it or find it useful. If you are listening to it on Apple Podcasts, please rate and review. I’d also love to “hear” your thoughts. If you leave your voice comment at http://anchor.fm/learninglights, I would love to answer your queries in a future episode of this podcast. Thank you! ========================================================================================= Icon Art Credit: Ranjeet Anand (http://instagram.com/poetrywithpixels) Music Credits: From Song “Trophy Endorphins” by Andy G. Cohen released under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License =========================================================================================

Episode 8 :: This episode discusses the psychology behind the Gestalt Laws/Principles and extends them to instructional design. Why you don’t remember the face of everyone who dances behind Hrithik Roshan or Katrina Kaif? Why don’t you remember the details of every object on your desk, but despite the clutter you remember the exact spot where you would find your favorite pen? Why the man and the woman who were sitting on that bench silently, appear to be a couple? Why you enjoy seeing videos of performances that appear perfect? Why can’t you sleep when you are trying to find out why something happened or why do you keep seeing a triangle when three sticks are set up so that their ends touch? And…what does it all have to do with design, and more specifically with instructional design? In this episode the following five Gestalt Principles are covered in depth. The Law of Figure and Ground The Law of Pragnanz The Law of Proximity The Law of Good Continuation The Law of Closure If you enjoy this episode, please share it with your friends and colleagues. If you are listening to it on Apple Podcasts, please rate and review. I’d also love to “hear” your thoughts. If you leave your voice comment at http://anchor.fm/learninglights, I would love to answer your queries in a future episode of this podcast. Thank you! ========================================================================================= Icon Art Credit: Ranjeet Anand (http://instagram.com/poetrywithpixels) Music Credits: From Song “Trophy Endorphins” by Andy G. Cohen  released under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License =========================================================================================