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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Similar post in this blog: In Response: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09--Part I 5. Comments on other blog(s) regarding qualities of an ID: Perfect Behaviour 6. The candidate should understand instructional design theories and models and should effectively apply them to develop eLearning content. BA = Business Analyst c.

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Learning Styles and E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

I got a vibe that many people who responded never read any of my past blogs, and thus, were basing their entire decisions on a small blurb about an upcoming post, which I should add, I have done for years on LinkedIn. A theory discussion. Written as a Journal Post. Again, you want that, then read an article in a journal. .

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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. Let's start with collaborative online spaces.

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An audience with.

Learning with e's

These are theories that guide many educators today. Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. Normally, in higher education, students write for an audience of one. Nothing new in that, you may think. I decided to take this concept a step further.

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Next Button: Yay or Nay? A Research Perspective on a "Pointed" Question

Patti Shank

It happened regularly when reading and analyzing the research to write Write and Organize for Deeper Learning and Practice and Feedback for Deeper Learning. When reading the research on writing for instruction, for example, I learned a lot about readability research and how applying these insights improves comprehension.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with e's

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing.

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10 hot tips for moocers

E-Learning Provocateur

This was certainly the case for some in the EDCMOOC , and I fear I was too dismissive of the issue in my previous blog post. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. I found it helpful to use the discussion forum to post preliminary drafts of my ideas, refine them, then blog them.

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