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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Is Instructional Design Becoming a Commodity? - Jerry Murphy, eLearn Magazine
The ascension of Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) and their increasingly automated authoring processes may be marginalizing the craft, if not the science, of instructional design. All the templates, wizards, and other productivity tools that come bundled into the leading LCMS platforms have certainly made it easier to assemble and deploy structured learning content. But will we see better online learning, or simply more? I’ve always trusted a basic law of project management: “good-fast-cheap–pick two.” Quality, schedule, and budget are the three pillars of any project, and we always need to strike a balance among them. The question is whether quality e-learning experiences are being displaced by easy-to-use toolsets, and whether the perceived value of sound instructional design is diminishing as a result.
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