One of the challenges of teaching an online course is to get students involved with the content beyond simply reading and discussing it. When students are separated from the instructor and each other by distance and time, how can they be effectively guided in arranging, participating in, and completing service-learning experiences? The presenter will share instructional strategies he has utilized to rise above such challenges. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether they realize it or not, designers create instructional designs that are layered. Designers in many fields have realized this and taken advantage of it to improve the sophistication of their designs and the speed with which they produce them. This presentation describes a theory of design layers and explains how instructional designers can apply the theory. Read the rest of this entry »