Gone are the days when instructional designers and subject-matter experts could spend months building an online course. The familiar ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) model, developed in the 1950s to meet the increased need of returning veterans searching for learning opportunities, seems to fall short in the 21st century. In higher education, courses must be developed, delivered, and modified continuously.
• Tips From the Pros: Using Twitter for Collaborative Learning
Twitter is an easy-to-use social networking tool that can be used in several ways to benefit learning.
• Providing Practitioner Mentors for Online Learners
Providing students with mentors can be an effective way for them to learn directly from experts in real-world situations. It’s a technique used widely in face-to-face courses, and it can work in online courses as well.
• Online Teaching Fundamentals: PowerPoint for Online Courses, Part 3: Images to Support Learning
PowerPoint bears the brunt of criticism when used as an instructional tool, but it’s the use of the tool that is the problem, not the tool itself. In this series of articles, I’m discussing how to improve your use of PowerPoint as an online teaching and learning tool. Yes, there are tons of other tools to use for creating online content, but PowerPoint is widely used and likely to stay that way, at least for the near future. So we ought to use it well!
• Teaching Online With Errol: The Underbelly of Online Teaching: Be Sure You Are Aware of It
Let me begin this column with an obvious statement: we are all human. No matter how much we embrace and enjoy online teaching, the human frailties of mistakes, disappointment, anger, frustration, and oversights will come calling each time we teach a class.
• 10 Ways to Make e-Learning More Exciting
Recently B. Luskin wrote about thinking of e-learning as a big “E” instead of a small “e” for “electronic.” The letter “e” should be a big “E” for “exciting, energetic, engaging, extended” learning. In the spirit of turning e-learning into an exciting learning experience, I would like to share 10 activity ideas based on my own instructional design and online teaching experience.
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