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Along with the increased diversification of the U.S. public education system as well as the United States as a whole (NCES, 2018) comes an increase in the number of institutions of higher education that are implementing mandatory diversity courses in…
The Food Network's television show Chopped pits chefs against each other, in a three-round battle, to create their best appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Facing master chef judges, the chef participants present their dishes with one chef chopped (elim…
When assigned to develop higher education courses for the online learning format, faculty members and instructional designers (IDs) are often assigned to work together as a course development team. Sometimes, faculty members may be unaware of the fie…
As online learning experiences become more common in higher education, professional development, and lifelong learning contexts, the importance of understanding how learning experience design and user experience design intersect increases. In this ch…
In online environments, active learning techniques can facilitate varied ways that learners engage and enact skill development, understandings, and connections across concepts. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework supports providing opti…
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that can guide the development of inclusive learning environments. The UDL guidelines, used as part of an instructional design process, provide a structure to proactively design flexible pathways and…
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles suggest that providing learners multiple means for engagement, representation, and action and expression will help learners become purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, and strate…
The Covid pandemic resulted in many higher education classes shifting to online instruction in the middle of a term and many institutions stayed online at least in part for several terms. Students taking these online courses did not choose to shift t…
A thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 33 instructional designers revealed impacts to instructional design practice during COVID-19 including: differentiating emergency remote teaching from well-designed instruction, the increasing visibili…
When teaching online, instructors often default to using synchronous activities, but asynchronous tools can provide effective learning opportunities in many situations. …
What learning experiences have been most substantial in your life? How many of those were special because of the people there with you, assisting you in your journey? One student, Steven, enrolled in an online program because it fit his work and fami…
One of the factors that makes a design compelling is when it has a sense of harmony and completeness. When we experience the design, it does not feel like a collection of individual parts that just happen to be together. Instead, they “fit&rdqu…
In order for students to learn effectively, feedback is essential. Providing feedback to students can have a huge impact on their learning. Instructors can provide their students with different types of feedback, including (1) webcam video, (2) scree…