Last night was a fantastic evening for my students. Their culminating professional presentations were well executed and demonstrated the excellence and quality in their work. Just as a reminder, Project Showcase for IDT 7095/8095 students is focused on team-based project management and instructional design. I’m really proud of the work they’ve accomplished this semester. http://www.flickr.com//photos/23067279@N05/sets/72157629861609611/show/ Abstracts of their projects are [...]
Break out your lightsabers, astromech droids, and Correllian pirate lingo … From my favorite little digital magazine Zite, I received a great chuckle today from the folks over at Mindflash on How Star Wars Characters Could Have Benefited From Online Training. I encourage you to pop over to their site to see the full image. If you’re an elearning developer, [...]
Next week, we have the awesome opportunity to “sit at the feet of the master.” On June 8th at 12:00 pm CDT, Professor Elizabeth Boling from Indiana University will be offering a free webinar on “What is Design?”. Professor Boling is certainly one of my mentors, and she is especially focused in design. I continue to learn so much from [...]
Last week at the Professors of Instructional Design & Technology (PIDT) meeting in Virginia, one of the sessions turned toward a conversation that was very similar to one I had at the American Educational Research Association last year in 2010. These are folks and their blogs who speak about instructional design regularly as community support and/or practitioners. So, I thought [...]
I hope you will join us for the IDT 7095/8095 Project Showcase on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm in Ball Hall Room 320. In the Project Showcase, each team will present a 20-minute overview of their project and product. This is a professional presentation, indicative of one to a school board, board of directors, senior executives, or at [...]
Incorporating video in your instruction can have its rewards and challenges. When utilized properly, videos can assist the learning process. According to Alessi & Trollip (2001), video is becoming popular in interactive multimedia. You can create videos to demonstrate or model a procedure, interview an expert, provide visual activity, and present plays. Videos can be appealing, entertaining, and promote higher [...]
Understanding and utilizing Subject Matter Experts (SME) is vital to the creation of online instruction. SMEs are valuable informants for task analyses, and their experience can provide teams with the necessary domain knowledge to assist in the instructional process, as well as assemble and organize the content (Alessi & Trollip, 2001). Although the SME is not the enemy, they can [...]
After reading Siemens’ “Questions I’m no Longer Asking,” I spent the next week pondering my own questions from the entrance of my instructional design and technology program. For example, walking into class the first night, I was looking for the girl named ADDIE. (Obviously, I didn’t find her.) Since then, I have found answers to these questions. A few of [...]
Continuing with our IDT 7095/8095: Developing Interactive Learning Environments II course, we are exploring different instructional design models. We first started with the classification scheme by Branch and Gustafson in a short overview created by Suha Tamim. Then we examined some of the seminal instructional design texts. This module gave us a feel for the variety of different types of [...]
A couple of days ago, our IDT 7095/8095: Developing Interactive Learning Environments II course began exploring different instructional design models. We first started with the classification scheme by Branch and Gustafson in a short overview created by Suha Tamim. Part 2: Instructional Design Texts First, view this interactive module on seminal instructional design texts. This module was created by graduate [...]
