Learning, Instructional Design & Training
Training and Development Manuals
Instructional System Design Manual — A complete guide to ISD or the ADDIE method (analysis, design, develop, implement or delivery, & evaluation).
Instructional Design Framework — A framework for designing learning environments.
Agile Design: An Ethos for Creating Learning Platforms — Rapid instructional design for agile, blended learning.
Extending Instructional System Design — How to move beyond ISD.
The above four manuals compose an effective framework for designing learning environments. To learn how they fit together, it is recommended that you read A Framework for Designing Learning Environments (it's a short read):
Learning is not a spectator sport — it is an active, not a passive, enterprise. Accordingly, a learning environment must invite, even demand, the active engagement of the student. — D. Blocher
Eclectic Collection
Media, Strategies, & Methods — Includes guides to Social Learning and mLearning
ADDIE Timeline — The growth of the ADDIE model
ISD Timeline — The growth of the ISD
Learning Through Researching: Adaptive & Adoptive Learning Methods
A Trainer's Toolbox of Templates Outlines
Learning Statistics & Benchmarking
Estimating Design Cost & Development Times
A Time Capsule of Training and Learning
Contributors, Gurus, and Pioneers to the field of Learning
Two Dimensional Performance Modeling
Train-the-Trainer Degrees, Certificates, Workshops, and Courses
Left Brain, Right Brain Metaphor
On Knowledge Jump
Karl Popper's the Three Worlds of Knowledge
Reading Lists
Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves. — Arthur W. Chickering & Stephen C. Ehrmann
Definitions
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. . . A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. — Rèmy de Gourmont in Glory and the Idea of Immortality