2019 - 09 - 30 - The Importance Having A Feedback Cycle To Boost Creativity

With instructional design being a creative act it's important for us to practice, but what good is practice if we're practicing the wrong thing or moving in the wrong direction. In order to make practice work most efficient, we need feedback. One of the things that I enjoy about my time in academia is that just about anything done in academia is met with a "peer review" a chance for feedback. This practice of peer review can work wonders as a creativity boosting tool. It's one of the reasons so many writers join writing groups. There are many ways we can solicit feedback, and I'm partial to the ones from the book "Show your work" by Austin Kleon. In fact, I'm such a fan of the book I need to buy yet another copy because I keep giving them out. What are your thoughts on ways to solicit feedback with instructional design work? Especially with so much of our work being proprietary or behind NDA agreements it's another argument for having a set of our own work that we do as a personal practice.