by tburch@gsu.edu | Feb 23, 2016 | #trending, Instructional Design
It’s not uncommon to hear someone talk about why online education should be accessible. In fact I’ve never heard someone argue against the idea of accessibility. Most of us if not all of us agree it’s not only a good thing but the right thing. Unfortunately talk...
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...
by Sarah | Jan 28, 2016 | #trending
Introduction Should the human body shape technological innovation or should technology shape the human body? Theorist Lewis Mumford wrote extensively on this question in the early to mid-20th century. In this short post I’d like to very briefly explore...
by ylin32@gsu.edu | Jan 15, 2016 | #trending
Myth 1- Quality does not matter. OER repositories such as Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides over 40,000 materials in 19 different material type categories which include animations, simulations, open textbooks, etc. The...
by Roxanne | Jan 8, 2016 | #trending, Cool Tools
Yep, you heard right. No more graph paper and pencils. No more painstakingly plotting individual points of an equation to see it visually. Now students and instructors can create, copy, and tweak graphs and interactive problem sets using Desmos – and it’s FREE!...
by tburch@gsu.edu | Nov 4, 2015 | #trending
I’ve now worked at the CII for ten months. Coming from a corporate instructional design background I’ve been learning and adjusting to the world of higher education. One of the biggest differences I’ve noticed is pace. I’ve been cranking out...