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Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine core professional competencies for instructional designers through a job announcement analysis involving both... qualitative and quantitative produces used on a qualitative data source. Using a conceptual framework as a guide, we extracted and examined a total of N = 1030 unique job announcements obtained from September to October 2019 from three popular job search databases: Glassdoor.com, Indeed.com and Monster.com. Using a systematic content analysis coding procedure, we coded the absence or presence of N = 185 competencies organized into knowledge, skill and ability statements (80 knowledge statements, 43 skill statements and 62 ability statements). These data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis models for dichotomously scored data, resulting in meaningful factors that are representative of these data. Our results highlight critical competencies for professional instructional designers in each domain, including soft skills, the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and more technical competencies like knowledge of video and audio authoring. The study provides a current snapshot of the knowledge, skills and abilities of instructional designers across settings. See more

Cognitive load theory is often referred to as the single most important theory teachers should know. What would our instruction look like if its recommendations... were always attended to? How might an instructional design based on it create more opportunities for all of our learners? Some resources and visuals for Cognitive Load Theory

Per Rick West: SUPER excited for the official launch of a new textbook aimed at anyone who designs learning environments! This book is FREE and openly licensed... (along with lots of other cool features) and contains 36 chapters from some of the leading scholars in our field, as well as some really great chapters from practitioners in the trenches. It's designed for first-year graduate students in the field of instructional design, but should also be helpful to instructional designers by assignment or by training who are doing the work out in the world. Many thanks to Jason McDonald for co-editing this with me (seriously, thanks---this may be my favorite project to have worked on), and to Royce Kimmons for creating the edtechbooks platform. And of course, thank you to the authors for contributing your skills to an OA book! Let us know what you think! If you are interested in providing a formal review of the book, please let me know, as that helps to include comments from reviewers in the book. In addition, a print on demand version should be available soon, but for now you can download it as a pdf if you wish.

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