by Jared | Feb 8, 2023 | 03 - Module Design, 06 - Instructional Materials, Creativity, Design Notes, Design Suggestions, Instructional Design, Teaching
What teaching work do you love the most and how can you do more of it? In this blog post, we’ll see how one GSU professor revised her online course to bring more of herself and her fellow experts into their learning community. Working with CETLOE, Dr. Deirdre Oakley...
by jjustice | Dec 1, 2021 | 02 - Course Planning, 03 - Module Design, 10 - Maintaining Transparency, Creativity, Design Suggestions, iCollege, Instructional Design, Learning Technology, LX Design Process, Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
Authentic assessment allows faculty to scaffold student learning in a course by tapping into a student’s prior knowledge of a subject and building upon that knowledge through real-world applications of the concepts and theories presented in a course. Beginning in...
by mnixon10 | Apr 9, 2021 | Teaching
We learn a lot about musical artists from their lyrics—their emotions through life experiences and even their struggles navigating life’s turning points. What’s special about so many classic songs is that the artists themselves were involved in the songwriting...
by Mary Helen Hoque | Mar 23, 2021 | Instructional Design, Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
For most of us, traveling to a new destination involves typing an address into a GPS and then trusting it to tell us our every turn. That’s what I did the last time I went somewhere new, but when I arrived I couldn’t tell you how I had got there. Sure, I arrived...
by Jared | Mar 19, 2021 | Instructional Design, Pedagogy Bytes, Teaching
Detail from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. CC BY-SA 3.0. Why Talk About Time? How much time should students spend working in your course? The poet William Blake wrote, “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”...
by Victoria Patterson | Mar 11, 2021 | Instructional Design, Teaching
“Group projects make me understand why Batman works alone.” – Anonymous It’s no secret that students are often less than enthused about working with their classmates. We’ve all heard the horror stories: the group member that never shows up, the domineering...
