This blog by Lynn Lease, PhD reposted from snu.edu/blog. People often ask me what I do as an instructional designer. Early in my career, most of my answers incited questions and confusion.To help me explain what we instructional designers do, I crafted an answer that typically satisfies the curiosity and seems to make sense to… Continue reading Instructional Designers are Architects
Feel like you need to be a stand-up comedian to keep your students engaged? What if I told you CATs can help? Teaching is just one side of the educational equation. Classroom Assessment Techniques are quick, easy, and helpful to engage your students as a partner in the learning side of that equation. Join Dr.… Continue reading Engaging Students with CATs
Are your class lecture slides filled with bullet points? It’s time to change things up! Join Dr. Lynn Lease in this webinar as she shares information we really need to understand about our students related to Cognitive Load Theory, the redundancy effect, information processing, chunking, and memory. You will walk away with some strategies for… Continue reading Flipping your PowerPoint for the Student Brain
Most educators are familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy, which focuses mostly on the cognitive domain of learning and knowledge-based objectives and outcomes. But, there is often more to learning than obtaining knowledge. Three domains of learning: Cognitive (Knowledge) Psychomotor (Skills) Affective (Attitudes/Values) What is the Affective Domain Taxonomy? Includes learner behaviors indicating attitudes, awareness, attention, concern,… Continue reading Krathwohl and Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy
I was once an online student. It was a great learning experience, and I thrived in that environment! So, I have to ask myself … what made my online learning experience so great? I was part of a learning community! I had opportunities to truly connect with and interact with my professors and peers using… Continue reading Online Teaching: Building a Learning Community with Virtual Meeting Tools
If you are on social media this week, you have likely stumbled across the hashtag #OneWord2017. Jon Gordon (@JonGordon11), Dan Britton (@fcadan), and Jimmy Page (@JimmyPageVT) wrote the book One Word That Will Change Your Life to inspire us to simplify and focus on just one word for the year for clarity, power, passion, and life-change. Well, I don’t… Continue reading My #OneWord2017: MODEL
This post continues a series called 5 Life Lessons Learned from the PhD. I learned much about education and instructional design during my PhD journey, but the most valuable of all were the life lessons learned along the way. In this 5-part series, which began with Just Start, I challenge conventional thoughts by looking at life a… Continue reading The Pain of [NOT] Doing: Life Lessons
Are you struggling to implement Open Educational Resources? Thousands of free, interactive OERs are available online, but many struggle to locate, select, and implement these valuable instructional materials. I have developed a free checklist that might help to guide your OER adoption! RESOURCES: Ready, Set, Engage! Interactive OER for Student Engagement Lynn’s OIDA Webinar (The first two… Continue reading Open Educational Resources
This post starts a series called 5 Life Lessons Learned from the PhD. I learned much about education and instructional design during my PhD journey, but the most valuable of all were the life lessons learned along the way. In this 5-part series, I challenge conventional thoughts by looking at life a different way. Lesson #1: Just… Continue reading Just Start: Life Lessons
What is curriculum mapping? Curriculum mapping is an important task used to show proper alignment of program goals, course objectives, instructional support materials, formative assessment activities, summative outcomes assessments, and finally the instructional plan. Simply put, it is the creation of a map showing the path of both teaching and learning from start to finish.… Continue reading 5 Steps for Curriculum Mapping
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