Miriam B. Larson, PhD, is a practicing instructional designer with over 40 years of experience developing online and face-to-face instruction and training for a broad range of public and private sector organizations and industries. She is currently an assistant director of learning and technology in the healthcare industry, and teaches graduate courses in learning experience design and instructional design for the Johns Hopkins University. She'd like you to know that the third edition and website resources for the award-winning book for practitioners and novices, Streamlined ID, are available on Amazon and on the Routledge website for the book.