instructional design

Google is making us SMARTER!

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While Nicholas Carr is decrying the supposed effect Google is having on our brains, he stumbles through a quote by Nietzsche to a friend on the effect a typewriter was having on his writing. The intriguing part of the quote is “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

Instructional Design for Online Learning: A NERCOMP SIG Event

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One of the advantages of writing about your own workshop is that you can benefit from participant evaluations. Over seventy-five people attended the full-day workshop on Instructional Design that I led last October,[1] and at least twenty seven of those in attendance had never before enrolled in a NERCOMP event. Over twenty five of these people drove more than five hours roundtrip to participate. This leads me to believe that many people feel a compelling need to understand and benefit from instructional design, so much so that people will step out of their comfort zones and venture, literally, into new territories.
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