After coming to the US for higher education, I have taken several online courses toward completion of my Masters Degree, and I am taking some as I pursue my doctoral degree. I also design online courses for faculty members, and I think I have an insight of judging an online/web based course from three different perspectives – a student, faculty, [...]

Over the next week, our IDT 7095/8095: Developing Interactive Learning Environments II course will be exploring different instructional design models. So, the blog posts during that time will be directed at a number of different models and ways to classify models.  The students will certainly be discussing these models, but I hope that many of you in the field and [...]

Before … A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a grant program from the federal government that was going to require that the course content created be SCORM compliant. This was based on an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education that said: Some higher-education leaders say a little-noticed technical note in a new $2-billion federal grant program could make [...]

Naview – Create easier navigations through prototyping and testing Wirify homepage – The web as wireframes CourseSites by Blackboard

In a recent article, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on higher education scholars’ views on using open access journals.  In the list of reasons not to publish in open access journals, Education scholars cited journal quality (26%) as the number one reasons not to publish, followed closely by concerns over the lack of money to fund publishing in these [...]

Sometimes I think I’m the last person in the world to find out about something.  Case in point: Shakespeare in Bits. The folks at Mindconnex Learning have take Shakespeare’s most famous plays Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet (Read: those in high school required reading lists) and made them fresh.  I think what they’ve done is created a new equation. Graphic [...]

Mobile Learning And AERA 2011 Why and What is HTML5? Four Student Response Systems for Mobile Devices

Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces 4 Ways to Improve Your Mobile Metaphors CSS Positioning 101 Site to Phone – Send links or text from your browser to your phone NEA – Get Smart! 10 Proven Strategies to Break the Ban and Build Opportunities for Student Learning with Cell Phones F&M mLearning Pilot Presentation 100 Mobile Tools for Teachers eLearning Slam: [...]

Rapid eLearning is a term used to denote short development times of online instruction with limited resources versus traditional instructional design approaches involving lengthy periods of time and large amounts of money (De Vries & Bersin, 2004). Another important distinction between the two is that rapid eLearning is oftentimes developed by the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) using simple-to-use tools while [...]

IDT 7095/8095 students, colleagues, and friends, Gary Woodill recently tweeted: Do you agree? Is this the purpose of education?