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I’m at OLC Accelerate 2023 in DC this week. An annual connection to friends and colleagues paving the way for innovation in digital learning. The Online Learning Consortium has been a home for me since my first conference in 2010. I thoroughly enjoy sharing ideas and learning from others (read: serial learner wanting to be…
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I’m presenting this week at the Association for Continuing Higher Education, Inc. 85th Annual Conference in Charleston, SC. I was asked to present by my colleague, Cristi Ford, at D2L to share a journey I’ve helped to support at Graduate School USA this year with the implementation of D2L Brightspace for virtual instructor led classes.…
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Do you need a quick start guide for you or your team to learn more about Microsoft 365 and its suite of apps? I was able to pull together some of Microsoft’s best free training elements into one spot. Take a look at the Rise360 tutorial I built for a recent UNT course.
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Another opportunity to create an infographic using Piktochart helped me to see the benefits of this ‘new to me’ platform. I enjoy the visual presentation of information and found the platform much easier the second time around. I like the playful images and icons available helped me find joy in this process. The various icons…
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A fun project to work on in my Online Design & Pedagogy course – the research continues to show the benefit of a blended course as face-to-face connections offer additional depth that has not always been possible in online learning. However, with the invention of synchronous collaboration platforms like MS Teams and Zoom, students and…
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As software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools become more pervasive in the learning technology world, support for these tools continues to evolve. Migrating from a hard copy user manual to a digital handbook and, more frequently, a continually updated web-based help site increases access to support materials in a user-centric way. Interestingly, as software companies adopt and utilize…
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Good design is user-centered, no matter the product (Ruiz, Serral, & Snoeck, 2021). When it comes to designing mobile applications, designers must consider a smaller user interface (UI) that offers similar functionality to a desktop version of the same application. At the same time, mobile users are not always interested in the same features. Function…
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Welcome NCCI Colleagues to my tiny corner of the internet! I use this blog to reflect on graduate school topics, usually ideas around instructional design, educational technology, and innovation in higher ed. I am hosting a Power60 session on Tuesday, September 28 for NCCI (The Network for Change and Continuous Innovation) as part of a…
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The last eight weeks have been both rewarding and challenging as I navigated my first formal instructional design course at UNT. I can wholeheartedly admit that I have a deep appreciation for instructional designers (IDs) and complexities of this role than ever before. I am also excited about using what I’ve learned in this course…
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Instructional design should be an iterative process. My current UNT course on instructional systems design has setup multiple opportunities to reflect and review the course we’ve been designing for a chosen client. With my client being a department at my university, it’s an opportunity to ensure a quality product for the university while also practicing…
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