instructional design SITES and organizations
Below is a list of various instructional design sites and organizations. These instructional design sites and organizations offer students, researchers, and working professionals with many instructional design and performance related resources. Among the many resources include instructional design related publications, magazines, conferences, webinars, podcasts, videocasts, certifications, job banks,
ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)
ASTD is one of he world's leading association of workplace learning and performance professionals, forming a world-class community of practice. ASTD provides exclusive resources such as the T&D magazine, newsletters, conference discounts, and job posting services to its members. ASTD also provides the instructional design community with learning opportunities such as the CPLP (Certified Learning & Performance Professional) certification as well as podcasts, professional conferences and educational programs. ASTD also provides the learning and performance community with multiple state chapter organizations throughout the United States who serve the local instructional design community.
ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement)
ISPI's vision is that members have the proficiency and insight to customize Human Performance Technology to meet the needs and goals of their organizations and clients, so that the members are recognized as valued assets. ISPI's mission is to develop and recognize the proficiency of its members and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology. IPSI provides exclusive resources such as PI, PIQ, PerformanceXpress journals, job and resume posting services in a Career Center, and conference discounts to its members. ISPI also provides the instructional design community with development opportunities such as the CPT (Certified Performance Technologist) as well as professional conferences, institutes, and webinars. ISPI also has multiple state chapter organizations throughout the United States. ISPI is a wonderful instructional design organization that also offers podcasts on human performance improvement topics.
The eLearning Guild
The eLearning Guild is a community of practice for designers, developers, and managers of e-Learning. The eLearning Guild offers three types of membership: Associate (free), Member Plus, and Premium Member. The Associate member receives access to the Learning Solutions eMagazine, Guild Research, discussion boards, job boards, among others. The eLearning Guild offers the eLearning Community multiple online forums and conferences throughout the year. The conferences and forums are focused on the management, design, and development of eLearning. The eLearning Guild provides the eLearning community with excellent 360 degree research studies on various subjects such as learning management systems, instructional design and eLearning salary report, mobile learning, measuring learning, simulations and more.
Chief Learning Officer
CLOMedia provides solutions for enterprise productivity in the enterprise learning market. Chief Learning Officer offers instructional design related conferences, webinars, and symposiums focused on executive leadership for learning and development. They offer learning and development executives and professionals with a free subscription to the Chief Learning Officer Magazine. This magazine focuses on various learning and performance improvement and instructional design related issues. CLOMedia also offers videos, blogs, and podcasts to learning and performance executives and professionals.
Corporate University XChange
CorpU is a an education research and consulting firm that assists organizations in optimizing their education and training resources. CorpU offers the instructional design community with excellent videocasts via CorpU TV. The videocasts delivers engaging content on current learning and development issues and challenges from top experts and leaders within the industry. CorpU is a very good instructional design organization that also provides the community with awards and research articles on various topics.
Training Magazine
Training Magazine offers instructional design and training professionals with resources and services that enable them to contribute to the field of learning and development. The resources include The Training Magazine, newsletters, blogs, and events and expos. Training Magazine also offers training and presentation resources & toolkits for training and instructional design professionals.
AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology)
The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is a professional association of thousands of educators and others whose activities are directed toward improving instruction through technology. AECT membership includes subscription to TechTrends, discounts to annual conferences, access to summer leadership institute, discounts to AECT publications, among others. AECT also offers a job center, online store, and regular conferences.
Sloan-C Consortium
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. Sloan-C supports the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction. Sloan C is a solid instructional design site and organization that offers its members access to journals, reports, catalogs, listservs, networking, and discounts on conferences. Sloan C offers the instructional design community with symposiums, conferences, workshops, publications, and news feeds.
