Several things have led to me actually writing a blog post. First, I’m home for two whole weeks straight (this alone is a small miracle). I’m also relatively up to date with my inbox and to do list (much larger miracles). I’m also indulging in some productive procrastination (which is probably the real reason).
Anyway, I typically keep a list of resources when I teach the ATD (ASTD) Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate, and I keep thinking that I should put the list somewhere. So here it is:
Blogs et al:
- Cathy Moore — her blog and The Elearning Blueprint
- Tom Kuhlmann’s Rapid Elearning Blog and Articulate’s Elearning Heroes Community
- Connie Malamed’s Elearning Coach Website
- Dan Meyer on Math, Being Less Helpful, and how to teach problem solving
Presentations
- Bryan Chapman’s How Long Does It Take To Create Learning presentation?
- Stephen Anderson’s presentations Stop Doing What You Are Told and From Paths to Sandboxes
- Anything Sebastian Deterding says about Gamification
- Usability.gov and Section508.gov (though the 508 folks could use some help from the usability folks)
Software Tools:
- Branchtrack and Versal – two interesting new elearning tools — can’t fully endorse them as they are still beta-ish, but interesting to look at.
- Quandary Examples – a free (and unsupported) tool for making branched learning games.
Research-based Resources
- Ruth Clark’s Elearning and the Science of Instruction
- Will Thalheimer’s Research Reports
- Art Kohn’s 2+2+2 method in Learning Solutions Magazine
- The Research for Practitioners Series at Learning Solutions
- Science Daily’s Mind & Brain feed
Behavioral Economics
- Nudge
- Predictably Irrational
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb discussing Anti-fragility
Books
- John Medina’s Brain Rules
- Daniel Pink’s Drive
- James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
- Jesse Schell’s Art of Game Design
- Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think
- Reuben Tozmans’ Learning On Demand
- Chad Udell’s Learning Everywhere
- Kristina Halvorson’s Content Strategy for the Web
- Roy Baumeister’s Willpower
- David Rock’s Your Brain At Work
- Alfie Kohn’s Punished By Rewards
- Everett Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow
- Jane Bozarth’s Show Your Work
- Peter Brown et al’s Make It Stick
- Jonathan Haidt’s Happiness Hypothesis
- Robert Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Model
- Amy Jo Kim’s Community Building for the Web
Anything by Kathy Sierra
- Creating Passionate Users Blog
- Excellent Podcasts on Motivation, Self-Determination Theory and Behaviorism
- Building The Minimum Badass User Presentation
- SeriousPony.com
- The Head First Formula
The “I can’t believe I forgot…” Add-ons
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Updated — some new books that have come out since I originally wrote this post:
- Kathy Sierra’s Badass: Making User’s Awesome (and rejoicing was hear through the land!)
- Connie Malamed’s Visual Design Solutions
- Will Thalheimer’s book on doing Level 1 Evaluation – currently available via kickstarter.
Nice to see a new post from you, Julie! Great resources. Don’t forget to add your own book to that list! Thank you.
I’d also add Steve Portigal’s Interviewing Users and Erika Hall’s Just Enough Research.
Second that – I was about to add “Nice list, but you forgot Julie Dirksen’s Design for How People Learn” until reading this comment and realising it was your blog : )
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Hi Julie,
I second Brian! Your book is definitely a must-have resource for every instructional designer. Your explanations, examples and analogies are just brilliant and they really helped create more effective learning activities and processes. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Thank you Mayra! So pleased to hear that it’s been useful 🙂
Great list–thanks for compiling it.
Excellent list and the Advance course is great too! – Thank you
hi, Julie~
i’m one your Chinese readers. Your stuffs are so great and so helpful! thanks a loooooot
So pleased it’s helpful! Thank you!