Category: Education and Learning

This information may be strangely familiar to you, and it might be able to help you develop online courses or help others develop their online courses. In the book Who Can You Trust (2017), the author Rachel Botsman dedicates a chapter to the phenomenon of the "strangely familiar" to sell products, services, and ideas. As… Continue reading Online courses need to be strangely familiar for instructor buy-in

I was recently driving a rental car full of advanced features that car companies hail will help me get from point A to point B safely. But in fact, I felt the car company labeled me an inattentive, high-risk driver in need of a crutch to protect me and those around me. These features actually made… Continue reading New Technology for learning is like new technology for driving  

"You should check it out when you have a chance." the professional bassist slash accountant slash computer hobbiest and regular customer said as I was stocking the magazine shelves in the front of the store. "I think it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's gonna be real popular." I remember him saying. It was the early 1990's… Continue reading My closed closed mind

“Educational Technologist”, what type of job functions does that title bring to mind? Would instructors ask an Educational Technologist for assistance in assuring their curriculum aligns with their online content? Would an instructor ask an EdTech to help design an online or hybrid course? Probably not. Instructors ask EdTechs to fix their Moodle Grade Center,… Continue reading The fuzzy boundaries of an EdTech’s job function

Online learning is growing and more people find out that although it offers the wonderful flexibility of both time and space it is not easy to complete a course. I'm not talking about an eLearning training course which you can blitz through in a few hours, I'm talking about a week or month long course… Continue reading How to succeed in Online Learning