Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators
A friend emailed me asking about the latest AI-powered tools that we instructional designers might use in our work. 2022 witnessed an explosion in the quantity and quality of AI-powered media creation tools, and...
Unlike in certain birdbrained areas of the web, Mastodon allows you to verify your account by associating it with your WordPress blog. Following this excellent tutorial, I’m simply placing a rel=me link into this...
I tried to get into Apple’s iPhone after years as a happy Android user, but even in 2022 there are significant areas where the Android UX is just better than the best that Apple...
There are multiple stages each learner goes through in the process of learning something new. Learning (as well as “online learning” and “eLearning” and “remote learning”) are first and foremost a human, learner-centered activity...
I was struck when I joined the world of corporate training about how widespread the use of interactive PDFs was as an eLearning tool internally, but I then learned how it solves some common...
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell you on their new platform for authoring/ delivering learning in...
Online learning tools like LMSes and 3rd party apps offer a variety of ways to notify learners of key events in their course. The new ubiquity of smartphones among learners opens up a wide...
In response to: What Should Higher Ed in the Metaverse Look like? – from linkedin.com by Joe Schaefer “The Metaverse is coming whether we like it or not…” Spoken like a vendor with a vested...
Alfred is my #1 favorite productivity tool for the Mac, and over the years I have developed some ferocious tricks to support the tasks I do everyday as an Instructional Designer. My work is...
Our team maintains a library of basic research about eLearning vendors we’ve worked with, or may explore in future. Until now, these files were stored in Microsoft Office docs. When I was asked to...
I am subscribed to the r/instructionaldesign forum on Reddit, and this year it is positively overrun with teachers trying to figure out how to get out of the classroom and into the field of...
One training mistake I see a lot is a sign that we need to stop and think deeper.
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