Instructional Design

At the moment, my day job is a 'project support officer'. What does this mean? When I find out, I'll tell you. Basically it's everything that's not engineering, integrated logistics support or management. I do 'stuff'.
Most of my career however has been under the umbrella of instructional design, see LinkedIn for a summary of what I've done.

I will sort out your information vortex of doom. it's fun!

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels

Examples of instructional design

A storyboard for an eLearning topic about German Shepherds. PDF 224 KB
A system recording of how to add an image to a Lectora quiz question. 3 minutes and 7 seconds. Using Camtasia Studio (Link to vimeo)
Example Manual Systems Administration for the Extranet — SharePoint Designer and
SharePoint. Redacted. PDF 441 KB
Engineer's Guide to Technical Writing. PDF 1.4 MB

Freelance Capability

My Instructional Design capabilities include:

Conducting Training Needs Analyses
Applying Plain Language principles to new or existing documents
Writing Training and User Support Plans
Developing templates and writing eLearning storyboards
Reviewing existing eLearning and writing recommendations for how to improve learning effectiveness
Rapid eLearning development using Articulate (including setting up template(s))
Capturing and editing simulations in Adobe Captivate
Writing web content and eLearning for accessibility compliance
Editing Lectora files and creating basic Lectora eLearning courses
Creating learning plans for virtual classroom sessions

My publications

I wrote an article about why eLearning fails, for the Australian Institute of Training and Development’s October 2012 edition. “Thirsty learners - Why is your eLearning training failing?"

I contributed three tips in the eLearning Guild's 2014 '84 Tips on New Instructional Design for New Instructional Technology'

Co-authored a report as presented at SimTecT called: Serious Games And Training Effectiveness: The Importance Of Pedagogy, 2013. It's about best practice pedagogical framework that stresses the importance of the key pedagogical elements of engagement and authenticity, motivation, practice and reflection, and scaffolding, in ensuring training effectiveness.

My qualifications

I list the full blah blah of instructional design quals on LinkedIn.

I'm most stoked about the Gamification course I did in January-April 2014. It really opened my eyes into the possibilities of funking up adult learning and user support by tapping into the secret weapon of intrinsic motivation.

It also has provided an insight into the app I worked on in 2014 and 2015 with my business partner of Flame Learning.

My clients

As a freelance instructional designer I have worked with the following clients:

A Pass Educational Group; converted existing text book chapters into Word storyboards for developers to put into online (Articulate) courses
Magical Learning; Taking existing PowerPoint courses and putting them into storyboards. Also taking PowerPoint courses and F2F training notes and converting them into Articulate eLearning courses.
The not-for-profit foundation e-Learning for kids. I storyboarded some lessons, as later developed by the team.
Me! And my friend Bron created 'Flame Learning' and the app 'Preschool kids math' in 2015. Read more about the app in the Press Kit. [PDF 3.9MB]