Brief overview of 3 instructional design blogs+

The three sites that I have chosen that deal with Instructional Design are (1) Learning theory from the encyclopedia of informal education. (2) Instructional Design for eLearning Approaches and (3) Blogs about: Instructional Design.

I would critique the usefulness of each site and reflect upon how the site might serve as an ongoing resource as I work in the instructional design field.

First I would look at the Learning theory at:

http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm

The Learning Theory has pertinent information on Learning as both a product and as a process. This is basically from the behaviorist point of view and cognitivist point of view whose theories are widely used around the world mainly with an exception of countries like Britain and Northern Ireland but which gives us a better understanding of how people learn. He also broke it down into two other categories which are important to know. He also gave further readings that Instructional Designers could find useful. I can use this site often in my Instructional Design field.

Secondly on the Ideas, Instructional Design for Elearning Approaches at

http://ideas.blogs.com/

you can reflect and have insights on elearning strategies and instructional technology design. This site is useful for all of your online Elearning questions and guidelines especially designed for us who are pursuing our online studies in Instructional Technology and Design. I would recommend this site for all of our students especially those of us who have little or no teaching experience.

As for the Blogs about Instructional Design at

http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001083.html

this site would be useful for visual presentations, keeping things simple and also it a clever way to help market books. It would take you to a video where the author answers questions about the book. This is a great idea to market books.

So whether it is to find out about Learning theories, we can look at this site to give us cues about the various theories or being aware of the different ELearning Approaches or using different Instrucctional designs to enhance our presentations, or simply keeping our presentations simple or to market books. All three websites should be valuable to us who are working in the Instructional Design field.