Our common thread: You and I are both educators and want to pass on our knowledge to others. Our common challenge: How can we do this most effectively and efficiently? In other words, how can we reach the widest audience while ensuring each learner masters our intended outcomes? This site exists to help answer these questions.… Continue reading Our common thread and challenge…
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Designed by Students for Students
It takes a lot of effort to make an app or online course intuitive. Simple doesn’t mean it’s intuitive, it may just mean it's mundane. But, simple, along with stepping into the student’s shoes, is the first step to an intuitive design. How to make an online course intuitive? Take an online course. Note what… Continue reading Designed by Students for Students
Falling Behind Online Anxiety
It happened to me again. After completing 15 online courses and an M.Ed. in online learning, I thought I would be over it. After designing hundreds of online courses, I thought I would be able to understand and manage the anxiety. But the foreboding feeling crept up again. I call it Falling Behind Online Anxiety,… Continue reading Falling Behind Online Anxiety
Lights, Camera, Lesson! A best practice guide to home online lesson equipment
Holding an online lesson or webinar? Participating in one? Every online participant has a unique online learning environment. Their hardware, software and environment can vary dramatically, which is why it is necessary to lay down a few essentials to get the most out of the online learning experience. Not only does the personal experience suffer… Continue reading Lights, Camera, Lesson! A best practice guide to home online lesson equipment
Technology is just getting too easy
Or, are we just underestimating our technological abilities? Image this: You are teaching a hybrid class for the first time and teaching in this hybrid classroom for the first time. You have 20 students in your classroom; 17 additional students who are scattered throughout the world attend your class via Collaborate (a Zoom like meeting… Continue reading Technology is just getting too easy
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