Tag Instructional Design
Any teacher newly teaching online must learn some technical skills. These technical tips for zoom teaching are essential, but may not be explicitly taught to educators. Assure educators are ready to do the teaching, by helping them with the technical… Continue Reading →
If you have been in a classroom in the past 19 months (since March 2020) you already know about the power of the publish and unpublish as an instructional tool. And if not, I know don’t how you’ve been doing… Continue Reading →
The Universal Design for Learning framework is a more recent approach to instructional design. With the rise in Internet-enabled platforms, K-12 classroom educators are now paying attention to how they teach online, whether partially (as in blended learning) or fully… Continue Reading →
The practices exemplified through POUR guidelines exemplify why accessibility address more than only students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs). [Tweet “POUR guidelines #infographic shows how to help more than IEP students with online content. #edchat”]
The best interaction in an online course is the interaction you create through suspense. By creating an Announcement Schedule you can stick to, you build anticipation for each forthcoming announcement. Courses that stick to an announcement schedule create timely interactions… Continue Reading →
Units of Design When designing components of a course, elements of a lesson, or just a stand-alone online experience it can be useful to consider the project from the smallest unit of design. The designer can look for the smallest… Continue Reading →
UDL Principles The Universal Design for Learning Principles (UDL) can increase retention in classroom interactions, programs of choice, and school in general. [Tweet “Everyone should care about #UDL #edchat”] Everyone should care about UDL Higher education may have more obvious… Continue Reading →
The basis for building K-12 online courses is the Community of Inquiry (COI) theoretical framework. Community of Inquiry The Community of Inquiry theoretical framework represents a process of creating a deep and meaningful (collaborative-constructivist) learning experience through the development of… Continue Reading →
If you’re reading this post you likely use a teacher using a learning management system (LMS). And if you are a K-12 teacher right now, you need to know how to organize a module! After just coming through the most… Continue Reading →
Taking teaching and learning online has a distinct look and feel in K12. Many educators tried to replicate classroom teaching with synchronous teaching as 1:1, Input: Return. The efficiency of current K12 synchronous teaching cannot scale beyond this unsustainable phase…. Continue Reading →
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