Show 0 of Instructional Design Live. Cammy Bean, Joni Dunlap, Mary Engstrom, Jennifer Maddrell, Robert Squires and Marlene Zentz introduce themsleves and discuss their non-prescriptive ideas about what Instructional Design means. Feel free to add additional comments or discuss your perspectives of ID here.

This week we spoke with Mary Engstrom about plans for a revised program for supporting faculty developing online courses at The University of Montana. The proposed plan is available at: http://instructionaldesigning.org/content/draft-faculty-development-process. Please feel free to comment.
 

This week Cammy Bean interviewed Robert Squires about how he became involved in Instructional Design as well as current design projects.
Texts mentioned in the discussion:

• Mark Pegrum: From Blogs to Bombs
• Brinck, Gergle and Wood: Designing Websites that Work: Usability for the Web

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Today, Danielle Wozniak, Assistant Professor in the UM School of Social Work, discussed her thoughts on developing online community and utilizing online supplements in her graduate and undergraduate courses.
 
References:George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
 
Chat log:

This week, we discussed how to promote learning through asynchronous discussions, in many cases, the heart of online courses. Issues considered include: developing a sense of community, structuring discussions, setting expectations, assessment and strategies for facilitating quality interactions.
 
Resources mentioned:
 
Joanna Dunlap: Down and Dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses
                       Protocols for Online Discussions (excellent discussion board activities)

This week we interviewed Ana Donaldson, author of Engaging the Online Learner and candidate for AECT president. (Read more about Ana's work). It was a great fun!
 
Ana offered the following information on upcoming events and opportunities for those in the field of educational technology: (Click on 'Read more' underneath the audio to access the resources).

 
This week Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design for Kineo and ID-live co-host, discusses what e-learning means from a corporate perspective. The discussion focusses on the following issues:
 

• E-learning in the corporate environment
• How corporate and academic instructional design intersect
• How to design effective e-learning materials
• Skills that are expected of today's Instructional Designers

Additional Resources:
 
A brief intro to Backwards Design: http://iearn.org/civics/may2003workshop/Understanding%20by%20Design%20Teaching%20Ellen%20Meier%20CTSC.pdf
 
You can read more from Cammy at http://cammybean.kineo.com/
 

Professor Charles Reigeluth from Indiana University shares his thoughts on Instructional Theory for education in the Information Age. Charles and Allison Carr-Chellman recently co-edited Volume III of the seminal Instructional Design Theories and Models (The Green Book): http://www.amazon.com/Instructional-Design-Theories-Models-III-Knowledge/dp/0805864563
 
Key points discussed include:

This week, we explored differences and similarities between Instructional Design work in corporate and higher education settings with Karl Kapp: http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/, http://karlkapp.com. Karl's background teaching e-learning classes and experiece training CEO's and front line staff gives him a unique perspective on desiging learning for these environments. Some of the points discussed include:

• Differences in the purposes of desigining learning
• Designing instruction to suit the different environments
• Assessing the effectiveness of e-learning design

Chat transcript: (click link)  Cammy's Live-blogged notes

This week, we discussed the experience of online learning with two students at The University of Montana. Amanda Armstrong, an undergraduate student taking a fully online degree in Media Arts and Jamie Lockman, a graduate student taking an online political science course. Topics discussed include:
 

• Factors that influenced the decision to take online courses
• The differences between online and face-to-face learning--and the surprises
• The challenges of online learning
• How instructors can make online learning more effective for students
• Technology that would help support learning
• Changes that would make online learning for effective for Amanda and Jamie.

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This week, Jennifer Maddrell discusses the focus for her dissertation work: the Community of Inquiry framework: http://communitiesofinquiry.com/. Her primary research question focusses on whether there is a relationship between learner's perceptions of "community" and actual learning outcomes as identified by grades, papers, tests, etc. The discussion took a very practical turn as we sought to identify particular strategies that may be used by instructors to develop community within online courses. Look for a three-part series investigating the pillars of the Community of Inquiry framework in April 2010.
 
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This week, we were joined by Maggi Savin Baden, professor of Higher Education Research at Coventry University in the UK. She has been investigating problem based learning for a number of years and is currently pursuing research into applications within Second Life.
 
Topics include:
 

• Getting started with PBLonline: key recommendations
• Effective teambuilding in online courses
• Value of Second Life for PBLonline
• Institutional perspective on PBL: Can it serve as a model of learning at an institutional level

There are a number of helpful links to her work in the chat transcript. Happy Spring break to many of you!