The Accidental Instructional Designer

Bean's friendly, practical induction into e-learning design for people who fell into the job — full of pitfalls to avoid and techniques to borrow. A view of the SDF's Procedures component through the discipline's institutional facet: how a profession trains its own newcomers. Bean writes for the many people who end up designing training and e-learning without formal preparation for it, often because their organisation asked them to teach a subject they already know well. The book covers the basics of instructional design, from working with subject-matter experts and choosing a design approach to building scenarios, interactivity and visuals, and includes voices from other 'accidental' instructional designers along the way. A second edition goes further into learning technology and assessment.