Category Archives: Instructional Design

Five Questions to Ask When Choosing Digital Content for Education

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

There is just so much digital content out there … a simple Google search reveals hundreds of education technology companies offering digital content products. And the difficult part for teachers and parents is that the claims these companies make all … Continue reading →

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Top 10 eLearning Design Principles Compared

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

Today I was over on Jason Renshaw’s blog, English Raven. He posted a cool idea: to compare your top 10 elearning design principles to those of Kineo, an elearning solutions provider.  Not only am I copying his idea, I’m copying … Continue reading →

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Mastery Learning and Gaming in Education: DragonBox

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

Today I want to write about something very near and dear to my heart, Mastery Learning. For those who are unfamiliar with Mastery Learning, it is a term that was coined by Benjamin Bloom (yes, that Benjamin Bloom) in 1968 … Continue reading →

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Three Terrible Truths about Teachers, Exposed!

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Something’s been bugging me lately…and at 5:00 this morning I woke up realizing what it is. It’s not really something that I didn’t know…sadly I’ve had many opportunities to observe it firsthand.  So here’s what it is: Education Technology companies … Continue reading →

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With Analytics, Don’t be a Sheep!

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

In this brave new world of big data and analytics in education, we have a lot of thinking to do.  Having a ton of data to inform what we do and analytics to help customize our instruction has the potential … Continue reading →

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Tracking is not Learning

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Reblogged from eLearning Development News: SCORM and the LMS are the Achilles Heel of training. Tracking data has become synonymous with measurement. This week I got an email from a vendor promoting the tracking capabilities of the product. It made realize how … Continue reading →

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What ever happened to Errorless Learning?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Lately it seems like I’ve been seeing a bunch of tweets and blog posts talking about errors being good for students because they learn from their mistakes.  WHAT??  When did this trend start?  And how? I’m not saying that kids … Continue reading →

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Khan and other Education “Revolutions”

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Just out of curiosity I looked up the word “revolution” on Dictionary.com today.  Here are the top three definitions: Rev·o·lu·tion [rev-uh-loo-shuhn] ; noun 1. an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by … Continue reading →

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It Works for the Corporate World Too!

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

Last week we talked about the learner always being “right,” and we really were discussing K12 classrooms.  But it’s so important to remember that this applies to any learning situation.

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The Learner’s Always Right!

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

What the heck does that mean, anyway?

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