Instructional Design Tips

Instructional Design Tips

Taxonomies, Common Misconceptions, SCORM File Red Herrings, Humour in Learning, and Some Recent Training Results

Premium Member's Edition #006

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Tom McDowall
Mar 28, 2026
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Hello subscribers and welcome to the sixth premium members edition.

As always, I’d like to start by thanking you for being a paid subscriber to the Instructional Design Tips Substack. Your support enables me to continue working on these articles.

This fortnight’s omnibus edition of the Substack focuses on a number of topics and questions I’ve received from subscribers in the Substack chat. If you’ve got things you’d like to see explored or questions you’d like my opinion on, please be sure to let me know.


In this edition:

  • Romiszowski’s Skill Taxonomy and Why It Deserves Your Attention

  • Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

  • SCORM Isn’t Dead, and Blaming It Won’t Fix Your Training

  • Humour in Learning: A Useful Tool, Not a Party Trick

  • The Change That Didn’t Happen in the Room


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