The Documentation Standard
The Instructional Designer's Edge
Documentation is not administrative overhead — it is the design artifact that makes ISD work reproducible, defensible, and scalable. A focused guide to building documentation as a professional differentiator.
About This Book
Most instructional designers treat documentation as the thing they do after the real work is done. A course map here, a storyboard there. Something to hand over and forget about. This book argues the opposite: documentation is where the design actually lives.
The Documentation Standard covers how to build four types of documentation that make ISD work defensible and repeatable — project documentation, design documentation, learner-facing documentation, and process documentation. Each type serves a different audience and a different business function, and knowing the difference changes how you do the work.
Practical, direct, and built for ISD professionals who want to stop reinventing the wheel on every project. If you have ever had a project go sideways because someone changed scope and there was no paper trail, or a course fall apart during review because no one agreed on what was approved — this is the book for that problem.
Written For
Instructional Designers, L&D Professionals, Training Managers
About the Author
Jon Edwards, M.Ed.
US Navy Veteran · AI Enablement Consultant · Instructional Designer
Jon Edwards spent 20 years in the US Navy, then built a career in instructional design across healthcare, financial services, and enterprise L&D. He founded Tanta Holdings LLC in 2025 — a four-company system built around the global talent and immigration space. His books are written from practitioner experience, not theory.
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