Recently, I became aware of the idea of empathy in instructional design. Upon further research, I saw that there seems to be a lot of...

EDPuzzle is an easy-to-use video platform that helps instructors boost student learning through video lessons. It collects learner data...

Every now and then, I end up in a conversation with a faculty member, co-worker, or employee about what I consider the age-old debate:...

This week, I'm focusing on the use of collaborate tools to increase student engagement in different learning environments. The tool I...

As part of the ID2ID Program, we are required to attend professional development events in order to keep up with current events. Today,...

What is AIDA? "AIDA stands for attention, interest, desire, and action, and can be used to describe the sequence of events that goes into...

This week, I'm focusing on the use of polls to increase student engagement in different learning environments. The tool I examined this...

Lately, I've been working on a few course developments and a full program evaluation. What I have started to notice was the trend or...

I've attended a few professional development and general meetings on the topic of course design and how to effectively design for online...

Over the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion between some of my faculty regarding the concept of being consistent in our...

Recently, I ran into a Linked In conversation where people were asking about Instructional Design (ID) models - some individuals were new...

Recently, I had some major changes outside of my ID world. With any change, comes some sort of anxiety (at least for me). However, in...

Recently, I had a conversation with a faculty member about the role of research and the disconnect between what research finds and how...

Earlier this week, I received our midterm evaluation survey results. While discussing with a co-worker (we'll call her Lisa from now...

As mentioned in an earlier blog about goal setting (you can read the whole blog here), I shared how my goal for February was to have an...

As part of my job, I try to explore and test out new technologies for use in online classrooms. One of my previous blog post had focused...

As an instructor you look for variety in your teaching methods. The same is especially true when teaching an online course. However,...