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…

Course Tools

30 March 2016

Instructors have more tools at their fingertips than ever before.  Sometimes the hardest (but most important) thing we can do for our students and our sanity is to . . .…

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)!

Assessment & Evaluation

29 February 2016

Wow. We’ve known for some time that student course evaluations are dubious gauges for teaching effectiveness. And we’ve known that there is gender bias in evaluation responses. But WOW. This…

Video Assessment Tools

18 February 2016

Video is an excellent way to communicate—but, watching video is a passive activity. Since learning occurs best through engagement . . . finding a way to make your videos more…

Presentation and Visual Design

16 February 2016

Presentation and visual design skills can be developed to help make our communications more effective.  They are fields of study and practice which can take years to master.  Most people do not…

Closed-Captioning Comparisons

15 February 2016

I’m currently evaluating Closed-Captioning Services for our in-house instructional videos.  Previously, closed-captioning has been done intermittently by individual instructors or staff.  For ADA compliance, and as a courtesy, we’ll be…

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