Kathleen York

Greater Chicago Area United States

Sr. Instructional Design Consultant

I am experienced at combining analytical ability with creative thinking to create innovative solutions to training issues. I think that Instructional Design should make learning easy, with topics flowing naturally from one to another, following a "logic track" and making it easy for the student to learn the content -- that to me is seamless instructional design. My goal has always been to make learning interesting, meaningful, even fun. Knowing that adults learn by experience, theirs and others, I use scenarios and stories to teach. A story conveys more valuable information than a screen full of bullet points. Realistic scenarios put the content into the right context. Then, incorporati...