Dina Shapiro, MBA, ACMP

Nice summary of the common traditional eLearning development tools in the market. Especially appreciated the thoughtful breakdown of the use cases each is best suited for.

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If you are creating or authoring Rise content. I recommend checking out Articulate’s maturity plan for Storyline. It outlines known accessibility issues with the application, if there is a planned fix, and provides additional workarounds and details. #accessibility https://lnkd.in/gBjW8VfP

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Instructional design doesn’t have to be an either/or conversation. ADDIE gives you structure, clarity, and governance. SAM gives you speed, iteration, and real-time feedback. In the real world? High-impact learning teams use both. We analyze the business problem with intention. We prototype early instead of waiting for perfection. We test, listen, adjust, and then scale what actually works. Learning that drives performance isn’t about following a model to the letter. It’s about knowing when to slow down and when to move fast. That’s how you build training people don’t just complete, but actually use.

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BUILDING CAPABILITY OR DELIVERING INFORMATION? “For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think.”- Plutarch There’s nothing new about this concept yet most instructional design still hasn’t caught up. Too many L&D programs and curricula are built on the transmission fallacy. The idea that: - Knowledge is a package - Training is the delivery courier. - Employees are containers waiting to be filled. Run the survey. Send the e-learning. Tick the box. Done. But neuroscience has been telling us for decades: Memory isn't a hard drive. It isn't a filing cabinet. It isn't storage at all. It's construction. Memory is a biological process — electricity and chemicals, firing and rebuilding in real time, every single time we recall something. Every time we “remember,” we aren’t retrieving a file. We're rebuilding it — live, using electricity and chemicals, reassembling the pieces in real time. That’s literally what ‘re‑member’ means: to put the pieces back together again. And each time we do, they come back slightly different— shaped by experience, context, and everything that's happened since. This is why two people can attend the same training and leave with completely different takeaways. Think about all the “alignment” meetings you’ve sat through, and how differently each team interprets the same information. What they’ve learned has been quietly rewritten — or forgotten — ever since. You can't deliver or transmit a memory. You can only create the conditions for one to be built. How is this done in effective instruction and capability development? Formative Recall. An approach that treats learning not as delivery system, but as a construction environment. The goal isn’t to fill people with information. It’s to design environments where adults actively build understanding — through application, reflection, conversation, and practice. You supply the tools, the materials, the context, the framework and challenge. They do the building. When you make that shift, everything changes: capabilities develop— because they’re built, not downloaded. Adult learners aren’t empty vessels. They arrive with frameworks, hard-won experience, and years of their own construction. The best instructional design doesn’t override that. It builds on it. #Instructionaldesign #CurriculumDesign #LearningAndDevelopment #WorkplaceLearning #AdultLearning #FormativeRecall #CapabilityDevelopment #TrainingAndDevelopment #OrganisationalLearning 

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AI won’t replace instructional designers. It will change the role—just like the online learning boom did in the 2000s. The difference? This time AI is a force multiplier. It can flood the world with bad learning—or help us create transformational experiences at scale. New article here 👇 https://lnkd.in/ecViDTrf #InstructionalDesign #FutureOfLearning #AIinLearning #LxD #GenerativeAI

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Great visual design does more than just look good — it plays a key role in supporting engagement and reducing cognitive load in eLearning. I had the pleasure of discussing this with Scott Nadzan — visual design guru (among many other talents) — as we explored practical tips for creating slides that do the heavy lifting in your videos, presentations, and learning content. In this short video, we cover one of the fundamental principles: the “rule of 3.” Watch the full webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dRnUf5wT

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🚦 Would YOU green-light this learning content? Not all eLearning deserves a ✅ That’s why I use a RAG (Red–Amber–Green) lens to evaluate Instructional Design quality. 🟢 Green: Learning outcomes ✔️ Interactivity that actually teaches (L2–L4) ✔️ Performance-based assessments 🟡 Amber: Looks good, but too PPT-driven ⚠️ Limited real-world application 🔴 Red: Passive content for skill training ❌ No alignment. No impact. 👀 Quick question: Would you redesign Amber—or rebuild Red from scratch? Because great learning isn’t about more clicks… …it’s about better decisions. 👇 Drop your thoughts below #InstructionalDesign #Elearning #LearningExperienceDesign #EdTech #LXD #HigherEducation #QualityMatters

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The Death of the Storyboard The "Word Doc Storyboard" is the floppy disk of L&D... I still see Instructional Designers spending 3 weeks writing a text-based storyboard in Word or PowerPoint. Column A: "Audio Script" Column B: "Visual Description" (e.g., Show two people shaking hands). ❌ This is a 'Lossy' Format. You write a description. The stakeholder imagines one thing. The developer builds another. You spend the next 2 weeks fixing the disconnect. ✔️ The Agentic Shift (Rapid Prototyping): In 2026, we don't "write" storyboards. We "render" them. With Agentic AI tools, I don't send a stakeholder a script. I send them a Video Prototype generated in 5 minutes. Old Way: Read this script and imagine the video. New Way: Watch this 30-second AI-generated draft. Is this what you meant? The Efficiency Gap: ❌ Text Storyboard: 20 hours to write, 10 hours to review. ✅ AI Prototype: 30 minutes to generate, 5 minutes to review. ➡️ Stop asking stakeholders to "Imagine." Start asking them to "Validate." #InstructionalDesign #AI #Storyboarding #LAndD #FutureOfWork #AgenticAI #EdTech #Productivity

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