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Who (really) needs instructional designers?
by Elizabeth Boling Years ago when I read Design for the Real World (Papanek, 1973), I was not anticipating ending up in a design field where the issues he championed would actually apply to my work....
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Doing the right thing?
Charles B. Hodges by Charles B. Hodges I work in an environment where thousands of learners access web-based learning materials daily. Web-based learning is a major topic of research and discussion in...
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PLEs: Are we ready for them?
Paul Ayers by Paul Ayers Let’s consider for a moment a formal definition put forth by Alan J. Cann for Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). A PLE is: a system that helps learners take control of and...
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Styles and templates and consistency…oh my!
David Lindenberg We’ve all seen it: The training material that is a jumbled mess of mismatched graphics, hard-to-read text and no sense of cohesion whatsoever. What good is the content if the learner...
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The role and future of social networking
Yuri Quintana Increasingly social networks are being used in business, education and by non-profit groups. Which social networks do you use? Which one is your favorite? Why is it your favorite? How...
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Time to refocus: Leaders for the 21st century
Lynn Schrum I have studied educational technology for over 20 years; my work has focused primarily on teachers’ use of technology for teaching, learning, and professional enhancement. Overall, we have...
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Toward a portal site
Jongpil Cheon by Jongpil Cheon The faculty members in instructional technology program were invited to visit some classrooms by a technology support team of a school district. All the classes we...
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Thinking about thinking: When will technology make a real contribution?
Ward M. Cates It’s interesting to me how little time we devote in schools to teaching critical thinking. Lots of folks seem to think it’s important (for example, funders like NSF, multiple consumer and...
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What I learned from teaching children and how it changed my instruction
When I began my first year of teaching, I had never completed a single course in the field of education. I had graduated with a degree in Business Administration and majored in Marketing. My degree...
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Questions I’m no longer asking
After reading Siemens’ “Questions I’m no Longer Asking,” I spent the next week pondering my own questions from the entrance of my instructional design and technology program. For example, walking into...
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