by ylin32@gsu.edu | Jun 25, 2018 | Instructional Design
A Design Journey Begins In May 2017, Dr. Shrikhande reached out to CETL to inquire about transforming his face to face FI 4040 course to an online experience. As indicated by the instructor, more and more courses in his department provide the online option for...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 13, 2018 | Learning Analytics, Workshops
Learning Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts*. At Georgia State University, we use Learning Analytics to understand and optimize learning from academic data that is typically generated from...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Yu-Ju’s (Sharon’s) paper is just published in the Journal of Formative Design in Learning (Wohoo). This is part of her dissertation study that she adopts open educational resources in the introductory statistics/quantitative research methodology courses to...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Dec 6, 2016 | Instructional Design, Research, Uncategorized
Every student is unique. Individual difference among students can result in diverse ways of communication, interaction, and learning. In the Convention of Association of Educational Communication, & Technology (AECT) in Las Vegas this October, I presented a study...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Jul 12, 2016 | 03 - Module Design, 04 - The Welcome Module
In an online course, student orientation plays an important role in assisting students to get familiar the entire online environment. Through student orientation, students have a great opportunity to know the overview of online learning, navigation of online...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Jun 20, 2016 | Top News
Affordable Learning Georgia’s Textbook Transformation Grants support the replacement of expensive commercial textbooks with low-cost, no-cost, and open educational resources. The Round Six-Eight ALG Textbook Transformation Grants Request for Proposals (RFP) is...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Jun 6, 2016 | Instructional Design, Teaching
We have a fair number of meetings with instructors who want to gamify their courses. Who can blame them – if you could get your students hooked on your subject like they are on whatever they’re playing on their phones during class, you’d be a fool if you didn’t...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | May 2, 2016 | #trending
“Writing Effective Research and Technical Reports” was my first project with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Working with Pam and Linda I updated their website and developed an eBook. The purpose of both is to help students produce research reports...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Apr 26, 2016 | Teaching
Two weeks ago, I presented my dissertation study in the convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Washington DC. This is a rewarding experience for educators and practioners to network and know the trend in the field. Here is the abstract...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 31, 2016 | Teaching
Competence-based education (CBE) was initially developed in order to bridge the gap between the labor market and vocational and technical education and nowadays is utilized in interdisciplinary fields. Competence is defined as the ability that one person can...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 23, 2016 | 06 - Instructional Materials
Social media has been widely utilized in teaching and learning. Doctor (2013) stated that the advantages that social media brings to education include easy communication, immediate information update, and high flexibility with a variety of devices (e.g., smart phones...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 15, 2016 | Cool Tools
Images are sometimes more explanatory than texts. More and more people like to create infographic to convey complex information. Infographic not only includes text and images to transmit abstract information but also makes the entire graphic more visually appealing....
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 11, 2016 | Instructional Design
Before we further talk about Gagne’s 9 events of instruction. Let’s see the video below and identify how these 9 events can be applied to train cats. Robert Gagne is an educational psychologist and well-known for his book, “Principles of Instructional Design” to use a...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Mar 3, 2016 | Instructional Design
On one Wednesday afternoon, some of my friends who teach or design online courses in other institutions were talking about the books you may recommend to novice instructors in online teaching. This free eBook, Teaching in a Digital Age, was recommended as a good...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Feb 1, 2016 | #trending, Instructional Design
Let’s think about a situation. In the beginning of semester, you have 40 students in your online course. Those students come from diverse backgrounds with different level of experience for online learning. Some students may only take 1 or 2 online courses before, but...