I literally grew up crawling around the floor of a family business, looking up to my mom, my grandmother, and a lot of friends – aka customers. The experience deeply ingrained an entrepreneurial spirit within me. Today, I think of myself as an intrapreneur. In the Chief Learning Officer article, Does your company value intrapreneurship, […]
Category: instructional design
Take control of your learning
Advice to my younger self… In college, I came across more than a few ‘weed out courses.’ One in particular was a Calculus course that I struggled to get through – twice. The struggle was real and it did a lot to weaken my self-confidence. When I encountered the next ‘weed out course’, I just […]
Why choose a career as an instructional designer
Design is a way of life… All day, every day, we either purposefully design our environments, or unconsciously fall into someone else’s design. We put on our favorite outfits to feel strong, capable, and in control or choose something very different to show a softer side that is open to being cared for. We read […]
Challenge learners
Learning is more than just consuming ideas. Ideally, it’s a catalyst for learners to challenge the ideas being presented.
What is instructional design?
In the workplace, for instructional design to result in changed behaviors and improved performance, it must be deeply embedded not only in the way we learn, but also in the way we work. The question is, how do we do this systematically? It is an age-old question, and the answer is…one step at a time. ADDIE […]
Who cares about course completion?
In his blog, Courses or Learning Episodes, Steve Wheeler, provided much food for thought. The instructional design course that I facilitate online does not have as a goal course completion by all students. The goal is simply to provide a source of just in time learning experiences presented in a context that encourages learners to […]
ABCs of Instructional Design
I recently launched a course on instructional design based on the ADDIE and UBD instructional design models. The course has been setup on several sites so that I can evaluate the designer tools offered in each learning environment. I am experimenting with the tools of 3 different learning management systems: Moodle, Blackboard, and Desire2Learn. It […]
Understanding by Design
Please visit my Understanding By Design webpages to gain a greater understanding of how the UBD design model can be used to create comprehensive study units. The principle purpose of these pages is to establish a forum for the collaborative development of middle school science units. The unit currently under development is for 6th grade Earth Science students studying the Theory of Plate Tectonics. Join […]