Posts tagged with “Instructional Design” (All posts)

Moodle Recipes: Small Group Discussions

16 January 2017

We’ve started a new series of posts called Moodle Recipes that will focus on pedagogically effective ways to make use of Moodle in a face-to-face classroom setting. All Moodle Recipes will…

Skills are (part of) “The New Canon”?

9 January 2017

In the Chronicle of Higher Ed* article “If Skills Are The New Canon, Are Colleges Teaching Them,” Dan Barrett suggests that after 20ish years of wrestling with a move away…

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Assessment Analysis

4 November 2016

Effective Instruction begins by determining your desired learning outcomes and then designing effective and varied assessments. There are countless ways to assess students–methods that are both traditional and non-traditional. I…

Instructional Design and Work Study Training Prep

3 May 2016

When I am asked what Instructional Design is about, I usually respond with something like “instructional design is student focused and built backwards.”  A little prying will get me to…

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Tech Training Goes Online

4 April 2016

I have been training faculty to use technology since 1999, and boy have things changed since that time!  When I started, technology was hard to use, difficult to master and…

Moodle Evaluation & Needs Assessment

21 March 2016

That’s a long title, but it means that I am launching a study of our use of our learning management system (LMS)!

John Green & Using Social Media in Teaching

11 February 2016

Humorous. Nerdy. Insightful. The power of using Social Media in teaching; a Ted Talk with author John Green.     –Dann Hurlbert is Carleton College’s Media & Design Specialist

Sharing the Bounty

7 January 2016

See Carly’s Blog by clicking here. Last fall, the ACM announced a language sharing project called Sharing the Bounty was awarded $42,448 from the Enhancing the Midwest Knowledge Ecosystem (EMKE).…