If application is most valued in performance-based training, then why not design it first?
An effective way to ensure you’re designing meaningful application activities is to use a “backwards design” approach. This is a little trick instructional designers can use to design application methods prior to designing the presentation of course content. There are a number of benefits to backwards design, some of which are shared in the video above.
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