Blog: The Doorway to Professional Learning Communities

Three blog sites to jumpstart your networking needs in the industry of Instructional Design. Visit these blogging sites to answer the who, what and how much of instructional design.  Get expert advice on becoming an instructional designer and developing your e-learning projects.                                                   

https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/

is an e-learning program development company that supplies digital software and support for online training initiatives.  ispring provides free and paid learning suite software, a marketplace to sell your e-learning projects, courses, and support for your training needs.  In the blog section of ispring you will find multiple blogs categorized as eLearning Basics, Instructional Design, Corporate Training, Course Selling, Updates, and Case Studies.  A variety of bloggers review products, provide design tips and tricks, and instructional design career development information. Just what any up-and-coming Instructional Designer would need.

https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Hosted by Tom Kuhlmann, an experienced e-learning designer, the Rapid E-Learning Blog offers links to free e-books, graphics, and a job board for instructional designers.  In addition to the great freebies, hundreds of professionally written, witty-toned blogs guide instructional designers on developing e-learning projects regardless of their experience level. The Rapid E-Learning Blog has articles that focus on designing the right course, managing e-learning, visual and graphic design, and much more.  This blog will be a superb resource for ensuring that the finer details of designing an e-learning course are in place.

 https://theelearningcoach.com/

Connie Malamed is an eLearning consultant with a graduate degree in Instructional Design and an undergrad degree in Art Education.  As the eLearning Coach website host Connie provides numerous instructional design training articles for anyone interested in becoming an instructional designer.   She offers visitors access to free e-books and a 12-week email instructional design course.  Exciting components of the eLearning Coach are articles dedicated to the cognitive learning processes, podcasts, and book reviews to ensure visitors have access to additional e-learning knowledge.  This blog is an excellent resource for receiving current information on the instructional design career.

Conclusion

I hope that you will find these blogsites a great start to your networking journey or worth adding to what you already have.  Feel free to share any blogs that have inspired you in the field of Instructional Design in the comment section.