Disrupting Education: Cost or Quality?
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July 8, 2024
Adaptive and “Pseudo-adaptive” LMS Feedback
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...
June 6, 2024
Save The Planet! A Modern WebQuest
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
June 6, 2024
If You Want Microlearning, Think About Learning Objectives
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
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The Changing Role of Faculty: From Traditional Ed to Competency Based Education
The role of the instructor has become ever more complex in the last century as technology, pedagogy, and student expectations have advanced with the...
Community Managers in Online Education
My previous post on using MOOC technology to Support Educators to Support Students generated quite a bit of interest, and I realized there was more...
Robo-Grading Essays with EdX Discern: A Middle Path with Our New Robot Overlords
Recently MOOC provider EdX unveiled Discern, a tool for automatically grading written student work like essays and short answer questions. The NY Times article...
Having Hard Conversations in Your Personal Learning Network
In Response to Tom Whitby’s The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network, and Paul Moss’ Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future....
Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs Part II: Supporting Educators to Support Students
In the previous post, Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs, I discuss the value proposition of traditional universities, and how those values are...
Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs: How Service-Oriented Schools can Add Value in the Online Learning Boom
This past year has brought a massive amount of attention to Massive Open Online Courses, and much speculation about what they mean for traditional...
Letter to a budding Instructional Designer: Getting Started Designing in Instructure’s Canvas LMS
I was recently asked to email a friend-of-a-friend, a librarian who was asked to do some Instructional Design in Canvas LMS. I’m reprinting my...
MOOCs Can Save Students, Not Just Dollars
Response to The Trouble with Online College, NY Times I think this article is right on the money about the challenges of online learning—...
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