Big Blue Button Tutorials
1 Detailed BBB Overview (18 min) – Detailed walk-through showing instructor and student perspectives
2 Setup Chrome (4 min) – Information on using Chrome as your browser for BBB …
Read MoreInteractivity & Multimedia in Learning
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When designing the textual presentation of information, a common “best practice” is to use a mix of Serif and Sans Serif typefaces to denote content hierarchy. Also, the text can …
Reducing Training Time for Common Computer-based Tasks
Many organizations rely on temporary or part-time workers and those workers need to be trained to perform common tasks within the organization’s computer systems. When these tasks are routine, but …
Read MoreUsing Interactive Graphics to Visualize Interrelationships
When educating diverse stakeholders on complex topics with multiple components, an interactive graphic can help learners visual the interrelationships among those components. To explore an example of an interactive graphic …
Read MoreContextualizing Courses with Engaging Interactivities
Courses comprised of multiple, related and sequenced lessons can be intimidating for learners if they have no prior context for framing the material. Designers can help students gain that context …
Read MoreAbout Learning: Theories, Styles, Preferences, and Technology
Connectivism and Adult Learning Theory both have elements that explain many people’s learning preference. In formal studies, the factor of “motivation” is often key. Specifically, when students undertake learning activities …
Read MoreConnectivism – Mapping Knowledge Acquisition
Learning occurs in many different settings and through many different interactions, some formal and intentional, others informal and by coincidence. If one considers the people, places, and things with which …
Read MoreCaution – Oversize load: How to avoid cognitive overload
We have all experienced it: The dreaded “information overload.” That point where our mind just can’t take in any more information and what we have already taken in does …
ID Resources Review
Below is a review of three instructional design blogs/resource sites with a description, critique, and suggestion of how they might serve as an ongoing resource for those in the instructional design …