Sanity Check: 12 "Power" Skill

It's hard to tell if that blog post is AI-generated (or maybe AI-translated from another language) or just a big long mostly-empty human-written post. There's a lot of noise out in the world and one has to navigate carefully to recognize and avoid or ignore it.

I'm sorry to hear you've been long-term unemployed. THE power-skill in the ID world--a skill which, if you develop it, will put you in the upper echelon of instructional designers--is the ability to convert mountains of content into ACTIVITIES that give learners the chance to PRACTICE what they are learning. Creating realistic job situations and letting learners practice taking actions and making decisions: that's where powerful learning occurs. Good courses are not about information; they're about what you want people to DO with that information, how you want them to USE it. Put them in situations and have them practice. Give them feedback, coach them throughout, etc. Don't "tell" so much. 

Most instructional designers are still crafting "content" (i.e., information), not practice opportunities. Build courses that drive learners to practice in the course the behaviors you want them to use outside the course and you will be among the top IDs in nearly any job application.