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Feel Instructional Design

My Dear Followers of The Zen of Learning,

I invite you to go beyond knowing and using instructional design. I welcome you to Instructional Design Junction, a place where the concepts of instructional design, training, elearning, gamification, and cognitive psychology will not only be discussed from an academic viewpoint, but experienced holistically. I invite you to be the first visitors (and hopefully, inhabitants) of an exotic just-discovered planet.

Instructional Design Junction - by Shafali R. Anand and Creative Agni.
Visit the Instructional Design Junction to feel instructional design and be ready to welcome the future of learning.

Check it out, and if you like it, please click the Follow button there. If you have wordpress.com blog, you’ll be able to read the new posts in your Reader.

Thank you!

  • Shafali
 

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Personal Finance Workshop – Free and online on September 19, 2021.

This workshop is for those who suffer from finance-phobia, avoid personal financial decision-making – even botch it up at times, and feel horrible about it later. In other words, if you are like me, this workshop is for you.

If you do, and if you want to figure out the F of finance without feeling zoned out, attend Creative Agni’s Free Online Personal Finance workshop on September 19th (Sunday, 10 am to 1 pm.)

Before you start wondering…I am NOT conducting this workshop but someone who’s brilliant at both finance and training, is.

Check out the details of Creative Agni’s Personal Finance Workshop here and register for it.

A Note:

This workshop is part of Creative Agni’s “Life Enrichment Workshops series.” These workshops are not related to Creative Agni’s core areas of instructional design, elearning, and training, but we do them anyway, because we believe that if we can, we should. Our Emotional Intelligence Workshops too are part of this series.

 
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Posted by on September 11, 2021 in Online Learning, training

 

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Free Emotional Intelligence Primer (EIP) Online Workshop – Aug 08, 2021 (Sunday.)

My dear readers of this blog,

It’s my pleasure to invite you to my 3-hour Free Emotional Intelligence Primer Workshop on Sunday, August 8, 2021. The Timings are 2 PM to 5 PM Indian Time or GMT+5:30. If the time suits you, please visit the workshop page to read the details of the workshop and the testimonials of the previous rollout participants. Then register for the workshop using the registration link available on the page.

If you are on LinkedIn, I also invite you to follow the Creative Agni Page on LinkedIn here. The page posts updates on articles, presents Instructional Design Quizzes, and announced our free and paid workshops and certificate courses.

 

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Learning Lights – The Instructional Design Podcast

I am glad to announce the Learning Lights Podcast, and here’s the trailer. The podcast will publish weekly on Wednesdays, and if you think that the frequency should go up, please drop me a line 🙂

What does the Learning Lights Podcast cover?

This podcast covers topics on instructional design, eLearning content development, training design and development – and talks about how to create content that binds your audience.

Who is the Learning Lights Podcast for?

This podcast is for aspiring and practicing learning professionals, including content developers, instructional designers, trainers, and teachers.

The first Episode, “Instructional Design? What’s that?!” is scheduled to publish later today.

More later,

Shafali

 

 

 

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Creative Agni’s Online Courses, Training Programs, and Workshops – At a Glance.

Dear Knowledge-seeking, Knowledge-sharing Friend,

In the coming week, I’ll be posting a few articles here. However, today I bring to you a consolidated list of all of Creative Agni’s online courses, training programs, and workshops on Instructional Design, eLearning, mLearning, storyboarding, and creativity.

I quote from the linked page, a bit about Creative Agni’s offerings…

Why a Creative Agni Online Course / Program?

Creative Agni’s Online Courses and Training programs are designed to forge you into a strong and analytical elearning or training designer whose work is fueled by pure instructional logic. Our Instructional Design, eLearning & Gamification courses and programs (IDCD Online, IDST Online, IDML Online, and GeLT Online) ignite the spark of contextual creativity in you, burnish your natural writing or training talent, and transform you into a creator and deliverer of powerful and smooth content or trainings.

This, of course, is possible only if you have the will to dive into an adventure that’s not just thrilling but also challenging. In other words, Creative Agni’s offerings are for the cognitive brave-hearts, who want to earn a certification that fills them with pride.

Well, that’s all for now 🙂

A quick note, the last date to apply for our IDCD Online course is October 01, 2020, so if you haven’t yet downloaded your form and applied for the same, do so now. Application is Free – registration follows acceptance of your application for a particular course.

 

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Register for Creative Agni’s Free Online Instructional Design Primer workshop

Hi Friends,

If you are a content professional, this workshop could be of interest to you.

Creative Agni's Free Online Instructional Design Primer Workshop

I’ll be conducting a 3-hour Free Online Instructional Design Workshop on September 06, 2020, which is a Sunday. It shall start at 10 AM IST and conclude around 1 PM IST. The workshop shall be conducted through Zoom, and all you’ll need to join is a free Zoom account.

So, if you’d like to attend an interaction and fun session on Instructional Design, please visit the IDP Page here, and register for it.

Here’s a bit about the workshop. For more details, please visit the link above:

Workshop Brief:

As we move into an era where our laptops and mobile devices have become a necessary extension of ourselves, the methods of learning and the psychology of learners both undergo a change. Along with these changes, the challenges that a content creator faces today, are different from the ones she faced before the century turned. The thread that strings together all these mediums of learning – traditional as well as modern – is Instructional Design.

From being an exotic, somewhat obscure discipline that was more misunderstood than understood, Instructional Design has emerged to be an important weapon in a content developer’s arsenal. The primary reason behind this evolution has been the growth of the IT and the ITES sector in India in the early 2000s. We have now reached a point in our journey where Instructional Design has transformed into an essential skill for almost every content development/training job in our industry.

All learning professionals, starting from the fresh content developers/trainers to the senior content/L&D managers, are expected to have a strong grip on the principles and methods of Instructional Design.

This workshop shall attempt to demystify Instructional Design and illustrate its connection with eLearning and mLearning, explain how being proficient in ID and related disciplines could put your career on a fast track, and of course; it shall also illustrate how much fun it could be to learn and apply Instructional Design.

Important Note:

This workshop shall require your video and audio presence. The workshop shall simulate the contact version of the workshop conducted in Noida, and will be different only in that the 3-hour session will be conducted through Zoom. The invites will be sent out to 12-16 prospective participants on first-come-first-served basis.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Provide exposure about the different roles and corresponding responsibilities that exist in the eLearning and Content Development industry.
  • Enable fresh instructional designers, content writers, and trainers to get a panoramic view of what ID practice and theory entails.

I look forward to meeting you this Sunday,

Shafali

 

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Splashing about in the Tub of Self-learning and emerging Enlightened.

Going Wrong is the First Step in Doing Right.

And I re-learned this lesson for the umpteenth time when I posted my first article on LinkedIn. Here’s the link to it.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tub-self-learning-hold-your-breath-shafali-r-anand/

The Self-Learning Tub Discovered during my learning LinkedIn article publishing.

Click the image to read how learning to publish my article on LinkedIn resulted in my descent into the Self-Learning Tub.

If you enjoy the article, do any or both of the following 🙂

  • Follow my feed on LinkedIn because I intend to write there quite regularly.
  • Subscribe to the Creative Agni eZine.

 

 

 

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About my Whereabouts…

Dear Readers of this Dear Blog-o-mine,

In the recent times, you haven’t seen many new posts on this blog (fine…I stand corrected. You haven’t seen ANY new post in a while!) I am sorry for my inordinately long absence. However, I’d like to present my excuse for your assessment. I’ve been kept busy by Creative Agni – the eZine for Instructional Design and eLearning and Creative Agni’s two Instructional Design Courses.

I invite you to click the following links to see what I’ve been busy with.

You can visit the Creative Agni Home page here.

I am organizing a Free Instructional Design Workshop on January 29, 2012. Click the following link to read about the workshop.

I will write more regularly now because if I don’t, my mind will explode with all the Cognitive Psychology stuff I’ve been reading. The only way to save my sanity would be to share what I learn, and so I’d be back soon:)

Best Wishes,

Shafali

 

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Creative Agni eZine, Sloth & Froth, and Some ID Fiction.

The Creative Agni eZine notification was sent out today. I know that it should’ve been done earlier, but I just couldn’t get down to wrapping it up until this morning.

If you haven’t subscribed to it, you can do so here.

I should say that there are two posts (among many others) that I would really love to share with my blog-readers.

  1.  A Short Story – Dushyant & Shakuntala – Why Love kills Logic?
  2. Sloth & Froth Comics – Teamwork Training and Decision-making

While you are there, you can also explore rest of the site and also meet Coffeebeans the Pup.

 

 

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Announcing the birth of the Creative Agni Instructional Design and eLearning eZine

I’d like to invite the readers of this blog to the Creative Agni eZine site. It was designed in my after-work hours. Those extra hours took their toll on my neck and shoulders, but when I was done, I felt that  it was all worthwhile 🙂

The Creative Agni eZine has the following five sections.

  • ID Fiction
  • The IDEAL
  • ELearning
  • The Creative Lounge
  • Sloth & Froth

Do visit the eZine site here. If you like what you see there, subscribe to the Creative Agni eLearning eZine 🙂

 

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