Designing Lessons for When You’re Not There
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...
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March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 10, 2023
The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
August 24, 2022
Microlearning is not a Platform, it’s a Design Choice
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...
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Building Critical Thinking Into Self-Paced Online Learning
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...
Towards a High-Touch Competency Based Education Model
“At this time in our history, the most valuable institutions will be those that generate real learning from average or disadvantaged students, not those...
Content Delivery Isn’t Instruction but it’s Still Important to Do Well
I religiously read Audrey Watters’ Hack Education blog, often finding that I agree with her in principle and then disagree about the details of...
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...
“The Golden Apple”: Showing Students that Their Learning Matters
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). The Golden Apple is the most cryptic and strange of all of...
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