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05.15.13. moocs in time

A walk back in time! Like Paul, I have also been “fortunate to have followed and experienced the early pioneering work of people like Stephen Downes, Alec Couros, Dave Cormier, and George Siemens.” Good article. Thanks, C! http://edtechfrontier.com/2013/05/11/the-pedagogy-of-moocs/

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05.09.13. Ipad and iphone in the classroom

http://www.imore.com/how-i-use-my-iphone-and-ipad-college-math-teacher

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05.08.13. design models

UBC has 25 instructional designers. GBC was hiring 9 id’s last spring. SLC = O. That’s not what the following article is really all about, it’s just something that makes me sad. http://www.tonybates.ca/2013/05/08/discussing-design-models-for-hybridblended-learning-and-the-impact-on-the-campus/ Tony Bates has again written a great article that … Continue reading

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05.08.13. Instructional Design and Online Course Development

A good overview of the importance of instructional design and clear id strategy in the development of online courses: http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/why-online-courses-really-need-an-instructional-design-strategy/

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05.07.13. Clip Art Redesign

Another awesome lesson from Tom K. at Articulate: http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/sl-custom-clip-art/1/story.html

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05.06.13. What does an instructional designer do?

Source: http://youtu.be/f2q-SYS2Kbc

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05.01.13 elearning project checklist

Another excellent resource from Cathy Moore for elearning projects: http://www.cathy-moore.com/resources/checklist-for-strong-elearning.pdf

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05.01.2013. Blackboard Course Copy issue

Just spent the weekend copying all my Blackboard course materials to new course areas before the old courses were deleted off the system at 9am today. I couldn’t figure out why the course files were not copying over and resorted … Continue reading

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05.01.13. on evidence based teaching and learning

From Todd Zakrajsek (@ToddZunc) keynote speaker at Georgian College fotc2013: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v7n1/invited_essays/PDFs/IE_Zakrajsek.pdf

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04.30.2013 flipping moocs

Viewing moocs as content vs. as a learning opportunity makes sense to me. It’s really all about course design …. http://teachingnaked.com/why-flipping-with-moocs-will-change-higher-ed/

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