Designing for Learning — Consulting, Advising and Facilitating
Welcome to this Designing for Learning site. I hope you find many useful tips and tools for practical, yet deep thinking about online learning, instructional design and program planning.
Don't miss the Library of E-Coaching Tips for Online Learning (http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/index.htm) -- now numbering over 80 -- developed by Judith with assistance from her colleague, Rita-Marie Conrad, Ph.D. This set of ecoaching tips addresses the many issues for designing and teaching online and blended courses. Staff and administrators find these tips handy as well for learning and planning for online learning. An updated - from 2010 - set of Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online (http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html) is also available.
Biggest news is that the bookThe Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips ( http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470423536.html ) by Judith V. Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad (authors) is now available from Jossey-Bass. This book organizes and updates many of the ecoaching tips that are on this site, providing a valuable resource for any faculty grappling with developing and delivering any blended or online program.
This Designing for Learning site features a collection of publications and articles from over 25 years while I have been working with faculty, consulting and writing in the area of online and distance learning and faculty development and the future of teaching and learning. These years included time at Penn State, Florida State, the University of Florida, Duquesne University and the non-profit organization CREN as a consultant, instructional futurist, online program advisor and ecoach.
Many of these publications and writings examine questions about online learning, such as cost questions about "how much" and "how many" and "how long"; basic principles about online learning; and what might the future bring? I am glad to hear from many in our community that they still find these writings helpful in clarifying issues and trends.
A number of keynote presentations have focused on the future, combining a look at the past, the future of teaching and learning possibilities and how to design and teach in these new environments. An archive of the presentation from August 2009 at the Wisconsin Distance Teaching & Learning is available at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/keynote_resources.cfm Other 2009 keynotes included the League for Innovation's annual Conference on Information Technology (CIT) in Detroit in October 2009 and the Curricular Change Summit for the American Association of the Colleges of Pharmacy in Scottsdale, Arizona in September, 2009.
In addition to the tips, the site provides many publications and writings from over the years, including an early article titled, Let's Boldly Go... to the Education Holodeck that appeared on the Syllabus /now /Campus Technology/ magazine back in 1998. That one is still fun to read as we don't have holodecks quite yet!
Many more articles and webinars by Judith are available at the Campus Technology site. Another continuing favorite from July of 2008 is Socializing' the CMS.
Older but much commented on articles include:
The Rise of Student Performance Content (2/2006)
Designing for Learning: The Pursuit of Well-Structured Content (12/2002)
After 25 + years of experience in supporting faculty and administrators in the effective use of technologies to enhance teaching and learning in all environments and assisting in strategic planning for new programs, I sum up the common theme in all of this work as follows: It is the power of instructional design, learning research and theory to support the goals of effective and efficient learning -- on campus and online --for faculty, staff and students.
Also, don't miss the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Distance and Online Learning. This edition has contributions from many of you, old and new friends, colleagues and new acquaintances.
A Brief Background
Over the years, Judith has consulted with a wide range of universities, colleges, and business organizations and is widely published in higher education publications. From 2003-2010, Judith has been consulting and coaching faculty, administrators, and deans on program planning for online and blended courses and programs, giving workshops, presentations, and keynotes as well as continuing her writing.
As a Syllabus scholar in the decade of the 1990s, she designed and delivered many seminars on online learning and instructional design and was a long-time member of the Syllabus/Campus Technology conference board, a co-editor of the faculty and staff development section of Innovate, and member of the advisory committee for Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Judith was the Executive Director of CREN from 1997-2003. During that time CREN produced the CREN TechTalk series, bi-monthly audio webcasts. Judith served as the program director of this series and cohost of these audio webcast series with Howard Strauss of Princeton. Campus Technology is now hosting the archives from these CREN TechTalks.
Her experiences in designing and managing the development of learning experiences integrating technology developments spans corporate, non-profit and higher education campus environments, including years in faculty development and distance learning centers at Penn State and Florida State. Judith earned her Ph.D in curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota and undergrad and master's degrees from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
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