DESIGN FOR LIFE

The Super Career Rainbow and the Work-Life Balance

Zubia Mughal

Aug 11, 20211 min read

The Super Career Rainbow and the Work-Life Balance

How do you know you have a harmonious work-life balance? Let's refer to Donald Super's Development Self-Concept Theory.

Have a Clue or Clueless? Which Instruction Design Theory Do I Choose?

Zubia Mughal

Jun 10, 20214 min read

Have a Clue or Clueless? Which Instruction Design Theory Do I Choose?

ADDIE + Design Thinking = LX Design (read this article here) Congratulations! You nailed it! The best bidder and the best portfolio...

xAPI: The Rising Power of Knowledge Management

Zubia Mughal

Jun 10, 20212 min read

xAPI: The Rising Power of Knowledge Management

Meet xAPI – the experience API. The real hero behind many of the learner analytics you use. Working meticulously with the LRS, the...

The Receding Attention Spans of Humans and what can IDs’ do about it?

Zubia Mughal

Jun 10, 20213 min read

The Receding Attention Spans of Humans and what can IDs’ do about it?

Alright! That sounds like the title of my next book. But seriously, isn’t that the issue nowadays? Take, for instance, this very article....

Agile Development: What You didn’t Know About Responsive Evaluation

Zubia Mughal

Jun 10, 20212 min read

Agile Development: What You didn’t Know About Responsive Evaluation

Have you been pacing up and down the hallway while the reviewers fill out their evaluation form on your eLearning program? A great way to...

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20214 min read

Parsing the Leadership Theories

Lussier and Achua (2016) give a "preview" of the organization of our studies when they discuss the Levels of Analysis of Leadership...

Preserving the Value of Higher Education

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20212 min read

Preserving the Value of Higher Education

CNBC ran an interesting article; "Forget free college. The future of the U.S. workforce depends on a higher education worth paying for."...

The Pandemic Aftermath: The Future of Workforce Development

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20214 min read

The Pandemic Aftermath: The Future of Workforce Development

How the current events will impact the future I attended a virtual conference yesterday called ETH Global Lecture Series: The Future of...

The Case for Merging Academic and Career & Technical Education for Effective Workforce Development

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20213 min read

The Case for Merging Academic and Career & Technical Education for Effective Workforce Development

Academic+ CTE Intgeration I have always been fascinated by charismatic leaders. I love to check out profiles of the company's C-Suite...

Individualized Instructional and Learning Communities: A Model for Workforce Development

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20213 min read

Individualized Instructional and Learning Communities: A Model for Workforce Development

For my Tech Integration Training, I chose the Individualized Instruction + Learning Communities Models. The Gray & Herr text talks about...

What's a High Quality Curriculum: Workplace Skills to Learning Outcomes Alignment

Zubia Mughal

May 25, 20212 min read

What's a High Quality Curriculum: Workplace Skills to Learning Outcomes Alignment

Finch aptly describes the world-class workplace in which learners (future employees) can deal with anything in manufacturing and IT to...

Zubia Mughal

Feb 4, 20214 min read

2020 Instructional Designer Trends

How far have you come as an Instructional Designer? Far enough. How can you be sure of that? The number one reason it is safe to assume...

E-Learning Specialties Gaining Popularity

Zubia Mughal

Feb 4, 20214 min read

E-Learning Specialties Gaining Popularity

Selecting a specialty can give you the opportunity to become a master at your craft. You can be the "go-to" expert in your field, and...

Become a Sleuth: Unlock Your Training Needs Core Questions

Zubia Mughal

Feb 4, 20212 min read

Become a Sleuth: Unlock Your Training Needs Core Questions

Researching through the cardinal requirements of a training would need you to put on your Sherlock Holmes hat! Before we begin to...

Zubia Mughal

Feb 4, 20213 min read

The F Factor: F Pattern and Fitt’s Law

When it comes to instruction design, borrowing screen real estate design principles from the interaction design field is inevitable....

Zubia Mughal

Jan 29, 20212 min read

VIDEO Samples

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Zubia Mughal

Jan 29, 20212 min read

ARTICULATE STORYLINE Samples

Some of my previous projects. To comply with my non-disclosure agreement, I have omitted and obfuscated confidential information in this...

Zubia Mughal

Jan 29, 20212 min read

ADOBE CAPTIVATE Samples

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UbD Stage 2: Evidence Development based on the 6 Facets of Understanding (Series 3 of 4)

Zubia Mughal

Jan 29, 20214 min read

UbD Stage 2: Evidence Development based on the 6 Facets of Understanding (Series 3 of 4)

I remember a time when I was the youngest instructor at a community college. I had a hard time establishing control over my classroom....

UbD Stage 1: Identifying Desired Results (Series 2 of 4)

Zubia Mughal

Jan 29, 20214 min read

UbD Stage 1: Identifying Desired Results (Series 2 of 4)

Let’s get straight to the point here. As professors, we are always running out of time, isn’t it? Often we want to make sure we choose...