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Do I need to hire an Instructional Designer (ID)?

An Instructional Designer (or Learning Experience Designer) creates effective, engaging training that helps employees learn efficiently and meet business goals.

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How does instructional design consulting services improve the effectiveness of your training program?

Designing learner-centered content

Training must be memorable to be effective. Instructional designers have expertise in designing user-friendly learning experiences that ensure the content is easy to understand and retain. Contract Instructional designers create learning materials that are tailored to the needs and preferences of your learners, resulting in higher engagement and retention.

Applying learning theories

Our capacity to learn is influenced by how we receive and process information. Instructional designers apply their expertise in learning theories to structure, sequence, and design effective training materials. By incorporating proven instructional strategies and techniques, they can enhance the learning experience and improve knowledge retention.

Creating interactive and engaging activities

Instructional designers use a variety of training modalities to increase engagement. For example, they can design interactions, simulations, game-based learning, and scenario-based assessments that promote active immersive learning. When the training is engaging and fun, more employees want to participate.

Ensuring alignment with learning objectives

Effective training reflects and supports what people actually need to do on the job. Instructional designers work closely with SMEs to ensure that the training content aligns with the desired learning objectives. They can help identify the important knowledge and skills that need to be learned and structure the content accordingly.

Utilizing multimedia and technology

Gone are the days of reading boring training manuals. Instructional designers leverage multimedia elements, such as videos, graphics, games, gamification, virtual reality (VR), and interactive modules to enhance the learning experience. Instructional design consulting services also recommend how to incorporate technology tools and platforms such as a strong LMS to deliver the training program effectively.

Evaluating and improving the training program

Instructional designers conduct formative and summative evaluations to assess the effectiveness of the training program. They can gather feedback from learners and stakeholders, analyze the data, and make necessary improvements to optimize learning outcomes.

6 ways a Training Delivery Specialist can add value to your learning team and organization

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Ensure a consistent, branded learner experience.

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Accelerate time-to-competency.

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Multiply SME & ID capacity.

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Scale training efficiently while lowering costs.

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De-risk critical launches and compliance.

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Reach every audience (distributed, hybrid, & inclusive).

What’s the difference between an Instructional Designer (ID) and a Learning Experience Designer (LXD)?

Both Instructional Designers (ID) and Learning Experience Designers (LXD) have a background in learning theory and take a goal-oriented, tactical approach. However, they focus on slightly different things during design and development.

For example, imagine that you want to create a self-paced microlearning curriculum. Both an ID and an LXD would start by defining your learning goals and objectives. Instructional design consulting services will help you create a series of eLearning modules and assessments. A learning experience designer might help you create realistic scenarios and practice activities, or a mixture of eLearning, videos, scenarios, job aids, games, and/or simulations.

Instructional Designers

Instructional Designers apply instructional design models and principles to systematically outline, design, write, and/or develop courses and curricula.

Learning Experience Designers

Learning Experience Designers apply cognitive psychology and user experience design principles to strategically outline, design, write, and/or develop a learning journey.

Success Stories

ELB Learning rapidly filled skills gaps with agile staffing, enabling fast LMS rollout and consistent training across workforce.

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Flexible staffing gave lululemon the L&D expertise it needed to stay on schedule, scale training quickly, and support ongoing organizational growth.

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On-demand L&D experts helped Montefiore overcome resource gaps, accelerate training delivery, and support essential organizational priorities.

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L&D specialists accelerated Avantax’s platform shift, producing timely, updated training for 3,750 advisors and 400+ employees.

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The result is sessions that start on time, technology that works without friction, learners who participate and retain, SMEs who stay focused on strategy, and programs that scale without surprises, complete with clean data trails for compliance and continuous improvement.

Whether you need short-term coverage, surge support for a major launch, or a contract-to-hire path, our on-demand staffing provides you with proven specialists who fit your culture and goals, so training reaches every learner and delivers measurable impact.

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