Whenever we build a one-size-fits-all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized...
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into...
Using a wiki as a collaboration space for a web-native content development process with subject matter experts.
I’ve never felt that digital mind-mapping apps offered much improvement over pen-and-paper drawing. Mind mapping is supposed to be a creative, right-brained experience, and...
Over the years I’ve been exploring Markdown as a content development tool, I’ve tried most of the Markdown editors available for Mac and Windows....
Sometimes a big part of the job of Instructional Design involves simply copy/pasting information from one format or platform to another. I’m working on...
In college I had a writing teacher who stressed the point that Writing represents you when you’re not there. –Alberto Rios It was his...
Hemingway is a markdown editor that coaches you to write more clearly, helping you to emulate Ernest Hemingway‘s trademark sparse, journalistic style. Though...
Until recently, I worked on Propero.org, a collection of accredited, self-paced, online learning courses where students work at their own pace and pick up...
I am a big believer in RSS News Aggregators as a core technology for lifelong learning. By allowing each individual person to curate their...
Most LMSes have a “Discussion Forum” tool that you can add into any course unit, and even make it a graded assignment in the...