Instructional Design in Healthcare

Table of Contents
Introduction
Christine Thornam
Stephen Brewer
Conclusion
Introduction
As a registered dietitian, I spent the first 7 years of my career working in hospitals in different capacities educating patients and employees. There seemed to always be a need to teach somebody something. I would educate patients about their diets. I educated food service workers about food safety. [...]

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Making Sense of Mayer – Chapter 1

I just tackled the first 3 chapters of Mayer. Whew! That is a cognitive load! I will try to sum it up here.
Multimedia: In its simplest form, it is the presentation of material in words and pictures.
Multimedia messages can be viewed in 3 different ways:

The Delivery Media View: This view is focused on [...]

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The Learning Organization Meets the Long Tail

I attended my first webinar (live web seminar) last Thursday, Sept. 6th. The topic of the webinar: “In this complimentary Chief Learning Officer e-Seminar, you will learn how learning management professionals can best harness the nearly limitless amount of information available to provide employees with the best resources to maintain the organization’s competitive edge.” The [...]

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Visual Interpretation of Web Trends

In searching the web, I came across this very interesting graphic. It is a visual interpretation of web trends as of 2007 and it is a map of the “200 most successful websites on the web” according to the creators, Information Architects Japan. (Here is a link to the large version [...]

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