If you’re teaching a hybrid or online course, your students are liking using an LMS app on their phone to keep up-to-date on their classes. LMS announcements can be a great way to keep students engaged in your course, since with the app they function similarly to getting a text message or email notification. Here are five ideas for how to use this tool to increase your teacher presence and student investment.
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In January 2022, I began my journey as an Associate Instructional Designer for Keypath Education. I’d been a college instructor for six years up to that point. Five years as a Graduate Teaching Associate and one year as an Adjunct Professor. In today’s post, I’m discussing my transition into instructional design and offering advice for anyone else looking to make this career pivot.
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Bloom’s Taxonomy is brought up a lot amongst educators and instructional designers. It’s a go-to resource when designing class activities, as it details different practices students can achieve throughout the learning experience. In today’s post, let’s go through each of the six elements of the revised version. I’ll provide some examples of activities that can work with each level.
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Robert Gagne’s “Nine Events of Instruction” framework is my favorite lesson learned so far in my instructional design research. It works for all types of teaching and training situations, but I’m focusing on college course design in this post. Keep in mind that this framework can be used for one assignment or for a course design as a whole.
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Need to create achievable learning objectives for your students? Not sure how to approach designing or explaining these learning objectives? In my recent instructional design research, I learned about the ABCD model for creating a learning objective. Find out more in this post.
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I recently took a Coursera course about the basics of instructional design. I thought I’d share some of what I learned. Specifically, the ADDIE Model is used to design and evaluate a course. There are five steps, hence A-D-D-I-E, to discuss. If you want a more in-depth discussion about designing a college course, check out my Successful Start series.
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