The best Instructional Design newsletters

Kamran Ayub, a freelance developer educator, writes about course design for technical learners, focusing on sharing lived experience and creating and releasing narrative tension in tutorials. Each issue gives concrete examples from reviewing Pluralsight courses on Next.js, React and .NET MAUI, with practical advice for instructors.

Hybrid Pedagogy is a critical digital pedagogy journal that now focuses on book-length publications, including ungrading and critical instructional design. Issues offer essays and book introductions that question grading systems, rubric-based online course quality, and the structures that shape teaching.

Hell and D is a practitioner newsletter on learning and development, with essays by L&D professionals on the failures of e-learning, measurement and gamification. Readers get critical, experience-based arguments and practical alternatives for designing training that actually changes behaviour.

A newsletter for L&D professionals offering practical takes on learning design, questioning techniques, and organisational change, often summarising podcast conversations with industry figures. It gives readers actionable TL;DRs on measuring real learning and building innovation culture beyond training.

Practical guidance on making learning materials and documents accessible, drawn from an instructional designer's classroom experience and an accessibility specialist's PDF workflow. Readers also get promotional notices for accessibility-focused webinars and awards events.

A learning design group's newsletter that mixes student capstone reflections with first-person career and school-leadership essays from instructional designers and teachers. Readers get practical advice on switching from teaching to instructional design and candid accounts of navigating administrative hurdles in education.