After you ENVISION, RESOURCE, PLAN, DEVELOP and TEST to Bring your Online Learning Strategy into Focus, it is time to IMPLEMENT. The implementation process may follow or coincide with testing and should be an ongoing iterative process of revision and improvement. As much as possible, the adherence to strong project [...]
After you ENVISION, RESOURCE, PLAN and DEVELOP to Bring your Online Learning Strategy into Focus, you probably feel ready to launch. But I cannot stress enough the importance of TESTING- and expanding the audience of who evaluates your creation. I’ve been surprised how often this essential part of any design process [...]
Finally we get to my favorite topic of this blog series Bring your Online Learning Strategy into Focus- DEVELOP your online learning strategy. If you missed the first three parts of this series, check out ENVISION, RESOURCE and PLAN your online learning strategy. The design and development adventures of online [...]
After teaching in college classrooms for twenty years (twelve of those years online), I have identified 7 Learning Design Principles that can help anyone make smart decisions when designing and creating online learning courses. The process of instructional design should be systematic. Evidence-based learning designs show, scaffold and sustain. Responsive [...]
In the first two posts of this blog series Bring your Online Learning Strategy into Focus, we considered how to ENVISION and RESOURCE the creation or conversion of an online program. This post presents advice for the planning stage of your online learning strategy. Either following or happening simultaneously with [...]
In the first post of this blog series Bring your Online Learning Strategy into Focus, we considered how to ENVISION the creation or conversion of an online program. Once this initial vision is articulated, the next step is to determine how this vision squares with the available resources. Of course [...]
While actual higher education enrollments declined over the last several years, enrollment in higher education online programs continues to increase at a rapid rate (See OLC Report). More faculty and higher education leaders now see both the advantages of offering online and hybrid versions of traditional classes and the inevitability [...]
Full Tilt Ahead had a fantastic time at Atlanta Connected Learning’s Digital Pedagogy meetup last night at Manuel’s Tavern. We met some fantastic and engaging people we thoroughly enjoyed sharing ideas with and learning from. We particularly enjoyed Jon Anderson’s talk about Pedagogy, Not Platforms. Read about our presentation over [...]
Last week I enjoyed offering a workshop about online learning strategy to leaders of theological schools at the Association for Theological Schools Bieennial Meeting. This is an exciting time of transition into online learning across higher ed and theological education in particular, and it was energizing to discover what these schools [...]