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Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter) [Paperback]

Julie Dirksen
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Book Description

November 17, 2011 0321768434 978-0321768438 1
Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching, even when it's not in our job descriptions. Whether it's giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people. But if you've ever fallen asleep over a boring textbook, or fast-forwarded through a tedious e-learning exercise, you know that creating a great learning experience is harder than it seems.

In Design For How People Learn, you'll discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you're sharing. Using accessible visual metaphors and concrete methods and examples, Design For How People Learn will teach you how to leverage the fundamental concepts of instructional design both to improve your own learning and to engage your audience.

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If it’s possible to be in love with a book, then I am in love with this one. Julie Dirksen has written a most excellent book for the beginning practitioner as well as the seasoned veteran of instructional design. --Cammy Bean, Vice President of Learning Design, Kineo 

This book is probably the single best book for the person who’s just getting started and wants to know more about instructional design and how people learn. --Tom Kuhlmann, Author of the Rapid E-Learning Blog

I’m delighted to have this witty, insightful, cleverly illustrated guide. --Michael W. Allen, Ph.D., Author of Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning

About the Author

Julie Dirksen is an independent consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years experience creating highly interactive e-Learning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies, to innovative technology startups, to major grant-funded research initiatives.

Ms. Dirksen holds an M.S. degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University.  She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Visualization Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she has designed and taught courses in Project Management, Instructional Design and Cognitive Psychology.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (November 17, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321768434
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321768438
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for instructional designers! November 30, 2011
By C. Bean
Format:Paperback
Dirksen has written a most excellent book for the beginning practitioner as well as the seasoned veteran of instructional design. She explains theory in easy-to-understand terms, provides lots of examples and real world situations to help you see how you can apply the principles she's talking about to your elearning programs. I'm buying this for my design team and will recommend this to clients as an essential book for the library!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Immensely helpful and enjoyable to read! January 12, 2012
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Dirksen has packed an immense amount of useful information into a small, organized space. I've worked in the industry for 14 years, and was pleasantly surprised to find that some of these pages serve well as a helpful checklist to make sure you've covered everything you need to in your project. Using the information in this book will streamline your development process, and will appeal to a wide audience of designers and developers with its humorous writing style and clean, clever illustrations.

The book is packed with exercises and images that help clarify understanding more than the typical reference book. The format of the book itself serves as a reminder of how to create a great learning experience. I found myself enthusiastically creating new project design assets based on the ideas in this book.

Dirksen covers everything from problem identification and how to determine whether you have a skills, environment, motivation or knowledge gap, to how to design the best learning solution based on the type of gap you're facing. She simplifies how memory works to make it understandable, offers simple questions and tools to engage the brain and to determine how proficient you want your learners to be on any given topic.

Many of us have read volumes on creating effective learning experiences, and if you want to delve deeper, you can always check out the rich reference sections in this book, but you'll probably find that's just a bonus. Newbies and seasoned professionals alike can significantly improve their projects by using the details and pages from this book as a guide and as a continuous reminder of how to create great learning experiences.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Design is so much more than a step in the ID process March 11, 2012
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This is one of only a few resources available that looks at design from a user experience and learning outcomes perspective, versus as just part of the larger instructional design process. And, DESIGN is so much more than just a step in the process. Julie writes in a very applicable, easy-to-read format with excellent examples and non-examples. (What else would you expect from an instructional designer?) I'll be using Julie's book as one of the resources in the Micro Instructional Design course in the Learning Technologies Master of Science program at Harrisburg University. I recommend it for newcomers to the ID field and seasoned veterans as well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, useful
Julie is funny and poignant. This was great for me to go over all of these learning concepts. I suspect that this is a great book fir beginner and expert.
Published 10 days ago by Carl Barringer
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
U think it breaks down processes in a easy to follow matter and allows developers and designers to see the ropes
Published 1 month ago by Cinthya Guillen
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book!
Julie has succintly described all critical factors to be considered in developing a learning program. Read more
Published 3 months ago by AMY KONG
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding guide to learning design, from inside learning itself and...
This book is an absolute gem. I'm only about a third of the way through it, but so far it has been that riveting, relevant and clearly useful that I have no hesitation in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jason Renshaw (englishraven)
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Book for Instructional Designers and Facilitators
I have created and facilitated learning for nearly 20 years and this book is the best resource I have ever seen. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. Delisi
5.0 out of 5 stars Experienced, entertaining, and efficient
THIS is the book instructional designers and educators in training should start with. Great examples and illustrations, down-to-earth language and theoretical applications, and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jared M. Stein
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Designers and SMEs
This book is clearly written with humor and visuals that add to the clarity. It has research to support concepts which is useful when talking with clients. Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. Schulz
5.0 out of 5 stars Great insights
Author Julie Dirksen does a remarkable job of connecting the brain research to what we can do as Instructional Designers to make our training more useful and engaging. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Sister Becky Swanson
4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview book.
As someone who has recently moved into the instructional design world with gusto, I found this book to be one of the most excellent primers out there. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jason Stokes
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and well designed - courseware authors will get a lot to...
As an experienced classroom instructor, much of the material in this book was a part of my intuitive understanding of good practices. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Billy Hollis
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