What do you do when it turns out that the almost dogmatically orthodox approach to instructional design, the intensely popular, and rarely questioned “backward design” is not going to work for you? Find out...
Most recent decade has seen increased interest in conducting well-designed studies that provide actionable guidelines for the design of online activities, based on measurable change in student knowledge...
What's the best approach to get grad students to read complete books, without overwhelming them with work? Here I explore a solution inspired in one of my favorite phone apps, Blinkist, and merging it with an old-fashioned book-club idea...
Online discussions in some ways they are better than traditional face-to-face synchronous discussions. They are more equitable, giving everyone time to think, and leveling the playing field for intro- and extroverts (who are always guaranteed to win in face-to-face discussions!).
I just came back from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) 2019 Accelerate conference in Orlando, FL, where I presented a session titled "What Students Want: Taking Instructional Design in Graduate Online Courses Beyond Best Practices, Principles, and Standards." It was…
