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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."

Learning on Demand

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So, I just finished Reuben Tozman’s Learning On Demand, and it’s great stuff. It’s particular great because I’m working on some of the exact issues he describes right now. Specifically, we are just starting to create content for a new system, and I’m wrestling with questions like: What kind of structure should we use for … Read more

What’s your best design advice?

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Peachpit (my publishers) are doing kind of a cool little series of posts on the Best Design Advice You Ever Got. Click here to see my entry: http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1930037 What’s the best design advice you ever got? (Artwork is courtesy of Judy Unrein, the Awesome color is courtesy of Crayola, and quote is from Alex Hillman via … Read more

Research for Practitioners!

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So the first column of what will hopefully be a longish running series for the elearning guild is up — it’s an effort to make learning-related academic research more available to a professional practitioner audience: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1021/research-for-practitioners-social-interaction-belief-and-learning Here’s the story behind it: Several months ago, Clark Quinn and I were at a workshop and we were … Read more

Creativity and Instructional Design

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I’m listening to the most recent toolbar episode with Judy Unrein, Brian Dusablon and their guest, Connie Malamed. They talk about a number of things, but there’s a lot of discussion of creativity – how to be creative, the importance of creativity for problem solving, and the unfortunate lack of creativity that can happen in … Read more

Why You Should Learn About Tin Can

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I blogged! Just not here!! I’m the guest blogger this week for the Tin Can folks.  It’s a post about why should care about Tin Can if you are an instructional designer: http://tincanapi.com/2012/09/04/what-does-tin-can-mean-to-instructional-designers/ I also get to bitch a little bit about SCORM and how is that not fun?