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We have made things easy for you in terms of finding each other’s public blogs by way of the EDCI Blog Hub, but that won’t be there forever. Individuals can use “RSS Readers” to subscribe to “feeds” from websites. RSS stands for… Continue Reading →
Hypothes.is Hypothes.is is a very light-weight web service and browser extension that you can easily install in your own browser and then use to have conversations in situ on web documents such as blogs, articles, documents, websites, and other resources…. Continue Reading →
Peer Reviews We have arrived at the point in the course where you will have substantially completed your Interactive Learning Resource as a draft and will be making it available for your colleagues in the class. During this week, each… Continue Reading →
What is learning? This is the million dollar question that needs to be answered before we can really talk about learning design. To get you started thinking about what it means to learn, please read this post from Clarissa Sorenson-Unruh…. Continue Reading →
Theoretical Perspectives We will focus on four broad theories – three foundational (Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism) and one more contemporary one (Connectivism). As you read the selection linked below, please consider the following question from the first reading: “Which theory… Continue Reading →
At this point in your life, you have probably worked your way through close to 15 years of formal learning environments. Some of you have experienced little more than a typical classroom with learners in rows of desks and a… Continue Reading →
Backwards Design Backwards design is the process of designing learning experiences by beginning with identifying the outcomes and planning all resources and activities in direct response to how they will support the learner in meeting the outcomes. It is the… Continue Reading →
You may be familiar with the challenge that it is to change someone else’s mind. If you have ever argued with someone whose beliefs are different from yours, whether they are a friend or a random stranger on the internet,… Continue Reading →
Learning doesn’t happen in isolation. Whether learners engage, persist, or quietly disappear from a learning space is deeply influenced by how learning experiences are designed, the contexts learners bring with them, and the technologies that mediate the experience. In technology-mediated… Continue Reading →
As we previously mentioned, backwards design begins with the end in mind, and learning designers do that by identifying one or more learning outcomes (also known as intended learning outcomes, objectives, learning goals, or other variations of similar language). Identifying… Continue Reading →