Blog posts: Instructional Design
8 Examples of Effective Training Videos
YouTube has over one billion users and witnesses more than 500 million views hours every day. In case you didn't know already, one of the primary reasons behind these...
Best LMS For Teaching Courses Online
If you're thinking about offering a self hosted online course then you'll undoubtedly come across the need for some type of Learning Management System (LMS). An LMS is...
Anchoring the Lesson for Your Online Class
The finer aspects about creating a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. In the previous blog article, Anchoring the Lesson for Your Class – Part I, we...
Using an Orientation Board for Your Online Classes
Create a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. If you have ever had experience with sailing, or know someone who has, you may have heard about or...
Online Student Assessment: Be Fair, Meaningful, Effective and Useful
Delving further into the philosophy of planning student assessment design. Following up from the Definition of Summative Assessment – Part I, it is important to go further into...
Summative Assessment: A Score That Weighs On Both Teacher and Student
Using summative assessments to both evaluate your students as well as your curriculum-planning. Finally, in a wrap-up to the theme of assessments covered in previous articles, we...
Educational Assessment: Evaluate What Online Students Need to Master
Understanding the importance of planning student assessment design. In a previous article discussing assessments ([Evaluating Your Students] Plotting Your Teaching Strategy), we...
Adjusting Your Online Teaching Strategy: Measure Student Success
Using formative assessments to fine-tune your approach while delivering course content. Expectedly, a natural follow-up to the article Planning Your Online Teaching Strategy...
Online Teaching Strategies Using Diagnostic Assessment… What?
Using diagnostic assessments to plan your approach when introducing new concepts. In the previous article Turning Apples into Oranges, we discussed the importance of you as a...
Designing an Online Course: Portion-Sized e-Learning
Delivering course content to your clients with stand-alone modules for self-paced distance learning. Previous articles in this series have covered the ideas of Howard Gardner’s...