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Julie Dirksen

Julie Dirksen is a leading expert in instructional design, elearning, and behavior change. She's a frequent speaker at industry events, an eLearning Guild Guild-master, and the author of one of the bestselling books on instructional design, "Design for How People Learn."

Craig Wiggins Says Let’s Stop Pretending

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I tweeted the link to this article about 19 times today, but I’m posting it again here.  Craig Wiggins has been knocking out good stuff on the ASTD Learning Circuits blog all month, but he saved the best for last: Let’s Stop Pretending Every field has them, but Learning & Development has a lot of … Read more

Good Practice Book Club

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Hey folks – apologies for the sadly neglected blog — I’m actually home for a WHOLE MONTH, which makes the prospect of new blog posts muuuuch more likely. This is just quick note to mention that the Good Practice folks (http://goodpractice.com) are using Design For How People Learn for their inaugural book club, which is … Read more

Going to be in North Carolina – June 22

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Hey folks, I’m cooking up some new blog posts for this highly neglected blog (turns out publishing book makes you busy – huh, who knew?).  In the mean time, I have a new article over on the Peachpit site — an expanded version of The Inspiration Bookshelf. Also – super excited about a workshop I’m … Read more

A few things going on

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So, I’ve had a crazy spring so far — between a brutal travel schedule and some unexpected health stuff (all resolved now), there’s barely been time to draw breath. There have been lots of good things, including some interesting projects in the works.  A particular good thing recently was a really nice review of the … Read more

Design For Behavior Change

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So, last week I did a keynote at the Humana Learning Consortium conference, which is a  great little internal conference for Humana’s learning and development folks, and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience there. The topic I spoke on was Design for Behavior Change, which is something I’m pretty passionate about. While I was presenting, the … Read more

Gameful Webinar – Recording

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The recording of the webinar that I did for the Gameful folks has been posted – it’s available  here: http://gameful.org/groups/gameful-webinar-series/forum/topic/gameful-webinar-%E2%80%93-sunday-february-12-2012/ We wound up with a troll in the room towards the end, who kept posting links to -erm- unsavory sites, so be careful about clicking links in the chat (The ones in the actual presentation … Read more