{"id":1683,"date":"2019-01-26T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:51","slug":"26365-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/26365-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"26:365 | Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructional design is all about choices. Well &#8230; and constraints. Oh, and requirements. And, let&#8217;s not forget preferences. Pretty soon our choices feel limited. I&#8217;ve been told my designs are too text heavy. However, there are reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Openness: <a href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/definition\/\">David Wiley notes in his overview of the 5R permissions (i.e., retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) that &#8220;poor technical choices make content less open&#8221;<\/a>. Text\u00a0(while certainly not the ONLY option) is a good option to allow others to take advantage of those permissions.<\/li>\n<li>Mobile Access: Increasingly, students are consuming content on their mobile devices. Highly stylized web pages don&#8217;t play nice with apps and small screens.<\/li>\n<li>Faster: Creating good quality content in other formats (e.g., video or audio) can take a looooooong\u00a0time. Also, edits, corrections, and updates are more difficult and time-consuming, and a student can skim through (and quickly return to) a page of text-based content a lot faster than watching and returning to a specific spot in a video.<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility: Captioning audio and video is getting faster, but it&#8217;s also a time-consuming step.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken and given my share of instructional media courses to know all of these defenses I&#8217;m giving can (and often should) be overcome to improve the message design. However, these are the day-to-day realities that impact my choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructional design is all about choices. Well &#8230; and constraints. Oh, and requirements. And, let&#8217;s not forget preferences. Pretty soon our choices feel limited. I&#8217;ve been told my designs are too text heavy. However, there are reasons: Openness: David Wiley notes in his overview of the 5R permissions (i.e., retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}