instructional design
Google is making us SMARTER!
Posted June 24th, 2008 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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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
Posted March 11th, 2008 by Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Simmons College
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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.
