Volunteering and Service Learning
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Volunteer your instructional design services and build new artifacts to showcase your skills and build a broader ePortfolio. It's important to design projects to support the client's or organization's goals while increasing your instructional design experience.
ID Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer locally! All organizations need training. Ask around and offer to help out on a training or performance problem. Many organizations' HR departments do not provide training or have experience in that area, and could use some assistance.
You may find a local nonprofit such as the Boy Scouts, Little League, or local museum with an educational project that needs your help.
These service learning opportunities offer a mutual exchange between students who want to learn more about working on instructional design projects in the community, and organizations that want to further their success through integrating instructional media products.
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Learn Appeal
eLearning industry charity to help organizations create targeted learning resources that can be accessed by clients using their own devices
24/7 Learn
Volunteer and help create access, provide educational resources, and to support low-income students and parents, as well as teachers.
Designers for Learning
This organization matches instructional design students with nonprofits in service-learning projects. Instructional design students develop solutions that are customized to the organization’s learning and performance improvement needs.
Lingos (eLearning Global Giveback Competition)
Volunteer and create something for their clients.
UN Online Volunteers Program
This organization might be a source of projects and contacts for volunteer teaching and training opportunities around the (virtual) world.
Idealist.org
Volunteer opportunities (on the ground and remote opportunities).
ID Newsletters and Discussion Groups
Reddit - Instructional Design Community
Listserv
Hosted by Educause and geared for ID
Blog Highlights
eLearning Learning newsletters. Topics are aggregated from dozens of blogs and sends highlights based on your interests. It's a quick way to get a pulse on things without having to subscribe to all those blogs individually.
Learning Solutions Newsletter
eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions free newsletter with contributions from multiple authors with different perspectives.
Association for Talent Development N(ATD) Newsletter
ATD provides instructional design webcasts and several newsletters showcasing instructional design content, tools, templates, and more.
Podcasts
E-Learning Scenario Design Podcasts
Anna Sabramowicz “shares practical strategies on how to design your own engagement rich interactive experiences, work with subject matter experts, apply psychology to optimize learning, give raw feedback, and spunky advice.”
The eLearning Coach Podcasts
Connie Malamed, from The eLearning Coach site, shares interviews with expert designers, developers, authors and professors who provide strategies for both learning architects and educators.
