by jcleaver | Mar 4, 2021 | Creativity, iCollege, Instructional Design, Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
Does your course have a story to tell? A fruitful way to view your course is through the lens of narrative or story. No matter what the topic or discipline there is always a way to incorporate storytelling in course design. Embedding your discipline’s concepts...
by Will | Mar 1, 2021 | Interwebs
Every now and again we come across articles with some very quick practicality for teaching online courses. And where we often focus on designing your course, instructor presence in an online course is probably one of the biggest contributors of student retention...
by jspeedschwartz | Jan 29, 2021 | Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
In the early days of 2021, the internet was briefly consumed with the story of ‘Bean Dad,’ a father who’s 9-year-old daughter was trying to make baked beans but didn’t know how to use a can opener. Bean Dad saw this as a ‘teachable moment’, gave his daughter a...
by Steve | Jan 12, 2021 | Instructional Design, Teaching
Hi, I’m Steve. I was a professor of communication for thirty years before accepting a position as a Learning Experience designer in the CETLOE in June. A month after starting, I was asked to teach an online class for the Department of Communication in the fall. The...
by jspeedschwartz | Oct 27, 2020 | Creativity, Pedagogy Bytes
“Hulk Smash!” I thought to myself as I dominated critique after critique. It was April of 2020, penultimate critique sessions for Advanced Animation, and after 9 years of teaching digital arts, I found myself reverting to teaching behaviors I had worked hard to...
by jcleaver | Oct 24, 2019 | Creativity, Instructional Design, Teaching, Uncategorized
Forrest Gump, the titular character of the beloved American film Forrest Gump, is known for saying “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” I would argue, that life is much more like a box of onions. You don’t know what you’ve got...
