Design for How People Learn

Series
New Riders
Author
Julie Dirksen  
Publisher
New Riders
Cover
Softcover
Edition
2
Language
English
Total pages
304
Pub.-date
December 2015
ISBN13
9780134211282
ISBN
0134211286
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Description

In Design For How People Learn students discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable their audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills they're sharing. Updated to cover new insights and research into how we learn and remember, this edition includes new techniques for using social media for learning as well as two brand new chapters on designing for habit and best practices for evaluating learning, such as how and when to use tests.

Using accessible visual metaphors and concrete methods and examples, Design For How People Learn will teach students how to leverage the fundamental concepts of instructional design both to improve their own learning and to engage their  audience.

Features

• The second edition of this practical beginner's guide to instructional design includes new techniques for using social media for learning

• Also includes two brand new chapters on designing for habit and best practices for evaluating learning

• Packed with exercises and images that help clarify understanding better than a typical reference book, this book’s format is an example in itself of what makes up a great learning experience

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Where do we start?

Chapter 2: Who are your learners?

Chapter 3: What is the goal?

Chapter 4: How do we remember?

Chapter 5: How do you get their attention?

Chapter 6: Design for knowledge

Chapter 7: Design for skills

Chapter 8: Design for habit - NEW!

Chapter 9: Design for motivation  

Chapter 10: Design for environment

Chapter 11: Evaluating learning - NEW!