I met Cathy Moore when I was in Indianapolis last year, having followed her blog Making Change - ideas for lively elearning since its inception. Cathy's blog is aimed fairly and squarely at instructional designers, encouraging them to 'dump the drone' and create more lively, powerful e-learning. Cathy's posts are beautifully written, imaginative and nicely presented, which makes me believe she probably does a pretty expert job as a designer. So, Cathy volunteered to be the subject of my third Webcam Interview, which means this probably constitutes a series. Expect to see number four, ...

... appropriate knowledge and skills. Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid? - The Rapid eLearning Blog Instructional designers need to consider web surfing habits. Whether it's right or wrong, people who are online have been developing habits that they bring to the elearning course. Design courses to accommodate these power browsing habits. If you don't ... learning to other tasks remains poor. Here, the authors present evidence for transfer from training on a ...

... instructional design. When the Institute moved to Arizona, becoming the University of Phoenix, for regulatory reasons ... university business degree programme designed for adults. Studies would take place after hours at the workplace. Cross ... became an e-leaming evangelist, writing white papers and making presentations about elearning. He became CEO of ...

... webinars would benefit from some instructional design principles. Webinar disasters can be prevented by applying basic instructional design: selecting content by taking into account the purpose of the presentation, attending to time/space constraints and audience, matching content with delivery strategies, applying document design, storytelling, ...

Perhaps the most enjoyable session I attended at the eLearning Network's July showcase event was presented by Richard Middleton of Academy Internet. The title of the session was 'Fun & games - are they really necessary?', although a more accurate description would probably have been 'Fun & games - when are they necessary?' Richard argued that, in designing self-study e-learning, the amount of effort you should put into elaborate forms of interactivity (scenarios, sims, games) or rich media content (audio, video, 3D, animation) should depend on two factors: "The greater ...

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Online Resources Instruction at FSU: A Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices This handbook has been designed to help those instructional faculty and graduate teaching assistants who are interested in being more effective teachers. It offers strategies used by experienced instructors and presents instructional methods and techniques following four components of Instructional Design: Course Planning, Lesson Delivery, Student Testing and Grading, and Course ... . Course Planning -- Content Chapter 1 - Designing an Effective Course (172 ...

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... best. Decisions on how to blend are based to some degree on instructional design considerations (such as how to best ... (ISPI), and holds a Ph.D. in instructional design, plus degrees in communications and marketing. He also holds the ... and realistic. This is a good sign; we can make more rational forecasts of how the field will evolve. It also presents ... unanticipated direction that is not always reminiscent of an instructional framework. To be more influential, e-learning must be reinvented. While continuing to provide a viable instructional option in a formal learning setting, it must ...

This is a particularly important time for the academic technology/instructional design profession, which is moving beyond ... changing. Once a position focused on assisting the early adopters in instructional design or educational technology, the ... maintain knowledge of online methodologies, instructional design, Web and multimedia design, accessibility and adaptive ... asked to conduct independent research on instructional design, learning theory, or instructional technology topics and ... culture of evidence tops the list of important issues as the academic technology profession moves to an "Instruction ...

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