A Reading List of Instructional Designers

I wanted to point out this article from Cammy Bean’s post. She added to her blog mid-February a wonderful collection of “Essential Reading for Instructional Designers”.

I’m going to capture her post here in it’s entirety for my own future reference and book list of things to read.

Thanks for this Cammy.

Essential Reading for Instructional Design?
from Learning Visions by Cammy Bean

As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library?I’m not looking for the obtuse theory books. I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety.These are my current faves. Easy-readers (a term of praise, in this case). Practical books with lots of real examples. They might refer to theory, but they don’t get bogged down in it:

Last May, I started a bit of a list in this post: Beginning Instructional Designer’s Toolkit. Dr. John Curry was kind enough to post a really detailed reading list in his post How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition (gotta love that title!)

After my appeal for something a little more pared down that I might actually be able to read, Dr. John came up with these essentials:

Other ID books of note that have been recently recommended to me:

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  1. You’re very welcome, Tracy. I hope this is useful to you.

    For now, all it’s done for me, is create a huge list of things that I don’t have time to read!

    Cammy

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