Instructional Design 37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow 37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow by Dr. Justin Marquis Remixing the curriculum – compiling resources from a variety of sources such as free online texts, proprietary information from publishers, and self-created media such as podcasts – is starting to push its way into K-12 and higher education. Get ahead of the curve with these tips for remixing your own online course materials. Gathering the Ingredients Before Remixing Like any course development process, there is a good deal of research that goes into remixing the contents of a new or existing class curriculum. Consider including a small selection of remixed materials at first and expand each time you teach the class. Free Courseware Free Online Texts Video Resources Remember, as will all sources from the Internet, you will want to confirm the validity of each one that you choose to include in a class. 37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow is a cross-post from onlineuniversities.com and Dr.
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Instructional Design Models The following is a list of prescriptive instructional design models. Prescriptive models provide guidelines or frameworks to organize and structure the process of creating instructional activities. These models can be used to guide your approach to the art or science (your choice) of instructional design. The following are commonly accepted prescriptive design models: Cognitive Domain (Benjamin Bloom) Affective Domain (David Krathwohl) Psycho-motor Domain (Elizabeth Jane Simpson) Behavior Model - Triggers The third element of the Fogg Behavior Model is Triggers. Without a Trigger, the target behavior will not happen. Sometimes a Trigger can be external, like an alarm sounding. The concept of Trigger has different names: cue, prompt, call to action, request, and so on. Examples of TriggersFacebook uses Triggers effectively to achieve their target behaviors. Here’s one example: I hadn’t used my “BJ-Demo” Facebook account in a while, so Facebook automatically sent me this Trigger to achieve their target behavior: Sign into Facebook. Note how this specific behavior -- signing in -- is the first step of Facebook’s larger goal: reinvolve me in Facebook. Three Types of Triggers My Behavior Model names three types of triggers: Facilitator, Signal, and Spark. Look at the Facebook example above. Triggers can lead to a chain of desired behaviorsTriggers might seem simple on the surface, but they can be powerful in their simplicity (that’s the definition of elegance).
6 Pervasive Corporate Training Pitfalls Remember when you were new to learning and development? If you really are new, congratulations and welcome to the field! If you’ve been around for a little while, I want you to think back: what do you wish you could tell your former self about what he/she is getting themselves into? Maybe you would warn “past you” about how easy it is for learners to tune out during training. Or perhaps you would tell a cautionary tale about how upper management is not easily convinced that the creative approaches you will want to try are worth the investment. I’m sure you’d want to mention just how often the content you need to teach changes, and how you are often left with too much to cover and too little time to do so. Are any of these challenges yours? As you probably noticed, the most common training challenges cited are highly interrelated. If only your former self had known what was coming! Not enough time for training The solution? Learners aren’t motivated or engaged
The big list of 100 tools, tips and tricks to work more efficiently online | The Buffer blog: productivity, life hacks, writing, user experience, customer happiness and business.The Buffer blog: productivity, life hacks, writing, user experience, customer 7.2K Flares Filament.io 7.2K Flares × What does it take to be productive? It’s a question I often ask myself and to be honest I don’t have a great answer for it yet. One key discovery I’ve made over the past year or so is that I need to have great habits in place. That’s why I’m working on a solid running routine and on a set wake-up time and sleep time. These things have been incredibly helpful for me and I know both Joel and Leo have discovered the same. One other realization I had is that, as I now spend so much of my day working online, there are a heap of new apps being created all the time to help us all become more productive. That’s why I thought of compiling a full list of 100 tools, tips and tricks for you to reflect a bit on your own productivity. Of course, a sure fire way to fail might be to try and use all 100, which Joel pointed out to me when we discussed this post! 10 awesome music sites to get into your zone “In the case of music, it’s a little different. 1. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Instructional design: Testing application, not just knowledge It’s easy and tempting to write activities that test whether learners know something. How can we make learners use their knowledge as well? You might be familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy. Its current form identifies six categories of intellectual performance, from remembering to creating. To make the taxonomy easier to apply, I grabbed my Unsubtle Machete of Oversimplification and in a few whacks reduced the categories to just two: Know activities ask learners to retrieve and maybe categorize or explain information.Use activities ask learners to apply information to realistic situations. Often, a “use” activity includes a test of whether the learner “knows” something — you get two activities in one! Example Your learners create widgets. Know activity: Drag the term to its definition — drag “transmogrify” to “modify a widget so it will function at high altitudes” Use activity: Your client wants to use their widget at 2800 meters above sea level. Have I been too brutal to Bloom? Photo by SOGKnives
BEHAVIOR DESIGN – Persuasive Tech The best design solutions today change human behavior. Yet despite decades of research, challenges remain for people who design to influence. First, “persuasion” seems a dirty word. Behavior change is a step-by-step process. What Matters in Behavior Design 1. 2. 3. Designing for behavior change via social and mobile tech is new, with no leading books or conferences to provide guidance. Behavior Design Project Team The following people have contributed their time and energy to this project. How to Successfully Implement a Training Program There are many famous quotes about planning – or the failure to plan. I like this one as it relates to the implementation of anything: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin Herman Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve has gotten a lot of new buzz in the past few years. Reinforcement and spaced practice is a significant component to help someone actually use what you are trying to teach them. When I do workshop sessions on implementation planning, I start by asking people to reflect on the Monday that will follow my session, which is typically their first day back at their jobs. These questions help participants realize that they are no different than the learners for whom they design solutions. The cost of poor implementation versus the value of strong implementation When I do sessions on implementation planning, I also ask participants to consider the cost of the forgetting curve or of poor/nonexistent transfer versus the benefits they hope to achieve.
A Must Have App Evaluation Rubric for Teachers The choice of which apps to use with your students in the classroom is not an easy one. It ,in fact , calls for a lot of attention from the part of the teacher. You are responsible for your students learning and this responsibility grows riskier when learning becomes digitally based.This is particularly the case when integrating apps into your teaching. These and many other questions are things you need to consider whenever you are selecting apps to use in your classroom. Click here to download and print it.