Creativity in Instructional Design

There are many different types of Instructional designers and in many cases Instructional designers develop learning curriculum for courses the designer will define development areas, create special projects, and provide leadership/project management. An Instructional designer has the responsibility of creating learning material that is easy to understand. The designer has to display some type of creative form and display different learning styles in their material. A designer wants to know and be aware of how to engage their users when they build material or websites.  Designers pay attention to thing that is not ordinary to most. When creating material they must grasp the audience attention with creative words, designs, pictures, web designs, pictures, and story lines. There are many creative and informative blogs out there discussing designer’s creativity in their roles. For example, designers can view Connie’s great blog post on evidence-based practice for improving creativity: http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning_design/improve-creativity/.

Designers start by being aware of many different learning styles and theories. Knowledge of the different learning styles and theories will assist with ideas and styles of implementing material. When you read a module that should be teaching you information or a step process, what do you look for to keep your attention? When reviewing web based learning material what do you think should be implemented to grasp your attention and assist you in retaining the information? These are things we need to know to be successful in our creativity and design. Designers must also be aware of the changing times, and the changes in technology. As time passes things change, technology changes, individual’s expectations of learning changes. We need to keep up with the technology & tools to be able to keep up with success.