Your Instructional Designer
Your Instructional Designer will guide the following choices for elements of instruction:
- Accessibility - Attending to universal audience access to the information and experience needed to successfully transfer new skills and knowledge.
- Attention - Focusing the learner's attention at each moment of the training on the right instructional parts of the training including animation, graphics, text; removing distractions from key information.
- Audio - Including development of narration scripts, recruiting voice talent, or applying AI-generated speech.
- Cognitive load - Ensuring learners receive the right amount of new information with the right amount of time to absorb and internalize without becoming frustrated or unable to absorb more; this includes analyzing the audience background and providing scaffolds towards the goals.
- Intellectual property - Assurance and documentation of legal ownership or licensing of images and other digital objects or permission to use and proper acknowledgements of resource material.
- Readability - using best use of hierarchy, navigation, accessibility (font style, color, size, background contrast and screenreader tags), focus, margins, focus, and word-choice (https://www.plainlanguage.gov/about/definitions/)
- Style - Designing the layout, graphics, and tonal elements that contribute to a positive feeling for the experience and which ease the acceptance of new information.
For additional insights into working with an instructional designer and experienced course developer see: