Since my last blog post, my group has gotten busy creating a course outline, description, and slide presentation. Through this process I have learned about trial and error in course building. With plenty of information to cover, the question becomes in what order should I share it? My experience as teacher has given me confidence…

Many instructional designers will agree that development of materials is tedious but important in the design process. Increasingly, the task of developing materials involves using copyrighted materials. To ensure this is done ethically regarding the material’s creator, instructional designers should understand fair use. Fair use is the use of copyrighted materials for limited purposes such…

Though theories abound concerning how we learn and how we should teach, there are three major theories that anyone who will teach in any capacity should understand. These include behaviorism, cognitive constructivism, and the subject of my post today: social constructivism. These three theories differ in many ways, but one of their key differences is…

A design process is a non-linear, iterative, and continual method that promotes feedback to discover the true nature of a problem to be solved. Because this process is iterative, you may return to prior steps, continuously using new information to inform the problem. While anyone could develop their own steps for a design process, the…

My third semester in the Learning Technologies Masters program at UNT is off to an exciting start. I am in the second half of Instructional Systems design and already putting my knowledge of the ADDIE method to good use. Each time I follow these five steps to create and test instruction, I find that there…