When I first got involved in corporate training in the mid-1980’s, content development was King.  Big binders were packed with tons of text on every page (often double-sided!) with very little white space.  Such binders were housed what I like to refer to as the “Black Page Principle” because there was so much ink on every page in the training manuals.  It seemed like many of these old school instructional designers were getting “paid by the pound” for training materials, not by usable content.  These binders were placed on office shelves, where they usually remained unopened.
Through the 1990’s I noticed [...]