Joanna Wroblewska

Games are systems — and systems shape behavior. I spoke with Sarah Le-Fevre about how we can use games to influence learning, innovation, and organizational change. If you work in design, education, or development, you’ll want to hear this one. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/e_N-h5_U

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𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗘. 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. Preparing for an instructional design interview is no longer about memorizing theory. It’s about mastering real-world scenarios that test how you think, collaborate, and design under constraints. This new article, 25 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘵-𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘤𝘬-𝘜𝘱 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, takes you beyond textbook answers. It explores how to navigate challenging SME relationships, design inclusive global learning, use data to refine content, and balance creativity with instructional rigor. Readers will gain: ● A comprehensive list of scenario-based questions drawn from real hiring panels ● Sample responses built around measurable results and design logic ● Practical frameworks for mock practice, self-assessment, and confidence building before interviews Whether you are refining your portfolio or stepping into your next role, this guide will help you articulate your expertise with clarity and impact. Read the full article to explore the complete set of 25 essential mock-up questions and sharpen your edge as an instructional designer. https://lnkd.in/d2yuQ24V #InstructionalDesign #LearningAndDevelopment #eLearning #TalentDevelopment #CareerGrowth

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🛠️ From Chaos to Clarity — How Instructional Designers Turn Raw Content into Storyboards That Teach Raw content is just the beginning. A folder full of PDFs, SME notes, and scattered ideas may hold knowledge—but it’s the instructional designer who gives it structure, flow, and purpose. Here’s how we transform raw input into high-quality learning storyboards: 🧠 Analyze source material for relevance, gaps, and learning potential 🎯 Define clear objectives that align with business or learner goals 🧩 Chunk and sequence content for cognitive flow and retention 🎬 Visualize interactions—quizzes, scenarios, animations, and transitions ✍️ Write voiceover scripts and on-screen text with clarity and tone ♿ Embed accessibility standards (WCAG, alt text, captions, keyboard flow) 🤖 Use AI tools to generate draft visuals, narration, and layout templates 📐 Build storyboards that guide developers, designers, and voice artists A great storyboard is more than a plan—it’s a blueprint for transformation. It ensures every learner gets a consistent, engaging, and inclusive experience. Instructional designers don’t just organize content. We craft journeys that teach, inspire, and scale. 🚀 #InstructionalDesign #Storyboarding #ElearningDevelopment #AccessibilityInLearning #AIContentCreation #LearningExperienceDesign #InclusiveDesign #MicroLearning #CinematicLearning #EdTechLeadership #ScenarioBasedLearning #VoiceoverScripts #DigitalLearningStrategy

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Create an Electronic Signature Fast and Insert It into Any Document (Accessible Method) Learn how to create an electronic signature and insert it into a Word document quickly and accessibly. This step-by-step guide shows a simple method that works for students, professionals, and anyone using assistive technology. #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #DigitalAccessibility #EdTech https://lnkd.in/e8vjzJSE

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🌍 Accessibility in learning is not just about compliance — it’s about ensuring every learner has the opportunity to succeed. The Articulate Accessibility Group is a great community for sharing ideas, tips, and best practices on how to design truly inclusive eLearning. At CZAR Training, we believe accessibility should be at the core of every digital learning solution. #Accessibility #InclusiveLearning #eLearning #LearningAndDevelopment #InstructionalDesign #CZARTraining

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The last Learning Designers Community (LDC) meetup brought together 17 learning designers from ed tech, L&D, K12, and LX design to reflect on #CarlHendrick’s webinar on the Five Illusions of Learning. Like all LDC meetups, the focus was on practice in real learning contexts. As I co-facilitated for the first time, three things stood out for me. #Illusion1: engagement does not always mean learning. We ideated on how to look beyond visible cues, what deep learning means & how activities remain in memory & not learning! #Second, discovery learning may not work for novice learners. We spoke about sequencing content more carefully, providing clearer guidance to new leaners while amping up self-learning challenges for advanced ones. #Third, Small wins help retain continued motivation, especially among younger learners. Most of us were raking our brians on how to find the balance between designing for easy wins vs friction for deeper learning. This space helped access a sense of validation, engagement & fun! Big shout out to Shraddha Rawat Miriam Elnaggar #LDC #LandD #peerlearning #learningcommunity

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Not all instructional design courses are created equal. Some focus heavily on theory, others on specific tools, and some try to cover everything but end up going a mile wide and an inch deep. Before you invest your time and money, here’s what you should be looking for.

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The best learning experiences provide challenges under realistic conditions. Most authoring tools were built for structured navigation. The model is evolving. We're seeing how adaptive, role-based experiences build decision-making, not just completions.

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Ask Sage AI has become my daily copilot for instructional design. In the Analysis & Design stages of ADDIE, I load policy docs, course maps, and old course notes into datasets and use grounded prompting to produce CLO/LO alignments, Bloom’s mappings, rubrics, and lesson storyboards for new course design in minutes, not hours! Recent use example: I transformed a course that existed only as a PPT deck (with notes) into a foundational text/lesson–based course. Ask Sage parsed the slides, organized concepts into a clean module flow, turned notes pages into first-pass lesson narratives, and proposed assessments aligned to our objectives. Even better, it crosswalked the newly generated content against our updated learning objectives, flagged gaps and then adjusted sequencing and phrasing so lessons, activities, and assessments stayed aligned. Outcome: no blank-page pain, easier starting point for the SME to do their magic, fewer rework loops, faster reviews, and clear traceability back to source materials. For IDs who need rigor at speed, Ask Sage is a force multiplier. Nicolas M. Chaillan Ask Sage, Inc. #InstructionalDesign #ADDIE #LearningScience #AIinEducation #AskSage #GenerativeAI

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😊 Get our STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PROCESS. People find storyboarding content harder than it needs to be. This isn't our experience. This end-to-end guide helps to free you from: - Overwhelm and frustration. - Scope creeeeep. - Projects that feel not fun for you and those you work with. - Releasing ineffective solutions. "I can't even begin to explain the value this process has added to my work! It's simple, easy to follow, and all in one place—I wouldn't be where I am as an instructional designer without it!" 👉 Check it out now on our creator hub: https://buff.ly/48Qg1k1 🤑 Only AUD$49! #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboard #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToBecomeAnInstructionalDesigner #HowToStoryboardAnElearningProject #howDoYouUseAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #whatIsAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #howDoYouCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #StoryboardingMadeEasyForInstructionalDesignersAndELearningDevelopers #eLearningDeveloperCourses #InstructionalDesignerCourses #StepByStepLearningDevelopmentCourse

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🎥 Transforming Training Videos with Synthesia AI Creating engaging video content for ILT and VILT used to take weeks, and a full production team. Now? I’m using Synthesia AI to produce microlearning videos that are polished, scalable, and learner-centered. Synthesia AI can: • Replace lecture-heavy ILT content with bite-sized video modules • Customize VILT intros, recaps, and scenario intros with AI avatars • Save hours of recording/editing time while maintaining quality • Ensure videos are diverse, accessible, and easy to update across programs Whether I’m training healthcare professionals or onboarding remote teams, Synthesia helps me create targeted learning content at speed, without sacrificing storytelling or instructional value. AI isn’t a shortcut—it’s a tool for building smarter, faster, and better. 👉 Curious how it can fit into your training strategy? Let’s connect. #InstructionalDesign #Microlearning #SynthesiaAI #eLearningDevelopment #ILT #VILT #LearningAndDevelopment #AIinL&D #EdTech #TrainingInnovation

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For a long time, instructional design has been taught as if it’s something you can learn mostly on your own. Watch some videos. Download some templates. Build a thing. Move on. But that’s not how instructional design actually works in the real world. The work itself is collaborative. It’s full of tradeoffs, constraints, competing priorities, and imperfect information. Instructional designers spend their days talking through decisions, pressure-testing ideas, negotiating scope, and refining judgment alongside other people. And that’s a problem when learning experiences focus almost entirely on content consumption. Because while content can explain concepts, it doesn’t build judgment. Templates can provide structure, but they don’t teach decision-making. And self-paced lessons rarely capture the nuance of real-world instructional design work. The most meaningful learning happens somewhere else. It happens through conversation. Through working through messy problems together. Through seeing how different people approach the same challenge in completely different ways. That’s where designers learn how to think, not just produce. So we’ve been asking ourselves a simple question: If we were designing the best possible way to learn instructional design today, what would it actually look like? The answer has become increasingly clear. It would be live. It would be facilitated. It would be hands-on. And it would be centered around people learning together. Not because that’s easier...it isn’t. And not because it scales better...it doesn’t. But because that’s how real skills are built, and how instructional designers develop the confidence and judgment needed to do the work well. Next week, we’ll be sharing something new that’s been taking shape behind the scenes. For now, just know this: we’re choosing connection over content. We’re choosing depth over scale. And we’re choosing to design learning the same way instructional design actually happens...collaboratively, imperfectly, and with real people in the room. Stay tuned 😉 #eLearning #InstructionalDesign #LearningAndDevelopment

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Accessibility starts with mindset, not mechanics. For most accessibility is treated as a technical fix to patch in later. Add alt text. Check the color contrast. Caption the video. Done, right? Not quite. Accessibility is first and foremost a shift in perspective. It’s the decision to design content, tools, and learning experiences with the understanding that people will engage in different ways, and they all deserve equitable access. Once that mindset shift happens, the technical steps make sense. The tools and standards (like WCAG) become guides for implementation, not obstacles to compliance.

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😊 Get our STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PROCESS. People find storyboarding content harder than it needs to be. This isn't our experience. This end-to-end guide helps to free you from: - Overwhelm and frustration. - Scope creeeeep. - Projects that feel not fun for you and those you work with. - Releasing ineffective solutions. "I can't even begin to explain the value this process has added to my work! It's simple, easy to follow, and all in one place—I wouldn't be where I am as an instructional designer without it!" 👉 Check it out now on our creator hub: https://buff.ly/48Qg1k1 🤑 Only AUD$49! #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboard #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToBecomeAnInstructionalDesigner #HowToStoryboardAnElearningProject #howDoYouUseAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #whatIsAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #howDoYouCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #StoryboardingMadeEasyForInstructionalDesignersAndELearningDevelopers #eLearningDeveloperCourses #InstructionalDesignerCourses #StepByStepLearningDevelopmentCourse

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A brief overview of accessibility tools available in Canvas that support inclusive course design and alignment with WCAG 2.1 standards. These tools help instructors identify barriers, improve content usability, and design courses that better support all learners. This short clip highlights how accessibility is not an add-on, but a core part of effective instructional design. Video: https://lnkd.in/gbUrpqxy #Canvas #InstructionalDesign #Accessibility

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Rethinking eLearning Development: Beyond Levels and Rate Cards   The Industry Norm: A Templatized, Cost-Based Model Most eLearning projects today are scoped and priced using predefined "levels," typically Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Levels 1 and 2 "designs" correspond to a fixed mix of screen types (static, interactive, media-rich) and align with a standard rate card. This model is transactional, not creative. It simplifies costing but limits the quality of the content. Bespoke eLearning: A Misused Term? Despite industry buzzwords like "bespoke" and "tailored," most "custom" eLearning boils down to one thing: content chunking. Instructional design becomes a mechanical exercise involving breaking content into screens and populating old templates. Most corporate eLearning today falls into this routine category, mostly under Level 2.   The Cost Challenge: Rising or Slightly Reducing Despite Repetition Why Is Cost Still Rising or Not Decreasing Much? Even with repeatable processes, eLearning development costs have either risen or not reduced much over time. One primary reason is inefficiencies from reinventing the wheel on every project. Another reason is fragmented team structures, where writers, designers, developers, and SMEs work in silos, and a lack of synergy between various teams within an eLearning company. AI: Used, But Not Smartly eLearning vendors are increasingly using AI primarily for content chunking or summarization. However, the core structure still uses the same old templates. So, while AI speeds up tasks and reduces the development costs, it doesn't lead to better learning outcomes unless integrated intelligently.   The Real Opportunity: Creative Use of Templates Design Templates What the industry needs is a creative rethink of how templates are used. Instead of just technical templates, we need "Design Templates" that are creative, learner-centric screen formats aligned to each level. Each template should balance engagement, instructional integrity, and visual consistency. Once they are designed, even less senior instructional designers can write creatively with the help of AI. All involved in the development team use copies of the same templates from the repository for production. With well-designed templates and an integrated team approach, development time and cost can drop significantly, while the courses move one notch up at a reduced price.

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Accessibility Tip of the Day: It’s More than Risk Accessibility isn’t just about avoiding lawsuits, it’s about doing what’s right. Every accessible document is an act of inclusion and respect for your audience. ✅ Compliance protects your organization. ✅ Inclusion strengthens your reputation. ✅ Accessibility builds trust and brand integrity. When you lead with accessibility, you lead with empathy. That’s what creates lasting impact. If you’re not sure where to start, and you’d like to schedule a workflow evaluation, we can review your team’s workflows to help you understand where accessibility can be spread across your system rather than piling it onto one person. #Accessibility #inclusiveDesign #CHAX #AccessibilityAwareness #AccessibilityAdvocate #InclusiveCulture #AccessibilityJourney #DoAccessibilityRight #CHAX #A11Y

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