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Higher Ed
Relationship Between Higher Education Courses and Academic Programs
Three ways to think about the relationship between Higher Education Course and the academic programs to which they belong.
Integrating Technology in a Degree Course
Higher Education can use technology in the these three ways.
Course Content Design: 5 Similarities between Kindergarten and Higher Education Students
When Developing Courses for Kindergarten Students and Courses for Higher Education look for these five similarities.
4 Questions to Ask Before Designing Higher Ed Courses
Before designing Higher Ed courses, ask these four questions.
K-12
3 Powerful Project Evaluation Practices for IDs
As an instructional designer (ID), you have carefully designed and developed useful content, engaging learning activities, and challenging assessment items for a project. You feel good about what you have created, but ‘So What?’ ...
How to Make a Content Vendor Partnership Work for You
Partnering with a content vendor offers you several benefits. Whether you need lesson planning, micro-credentialing, item writing, or full course development, you can benefit from outsourcing your project. Some vendors even...
3 Connections Between Learning Standards and Performance-Based Assessments
What are performance-based assessments (PBA)? Here's an example to help you understand PBAs. Let’s think about verbs. Regardless of your level of interest in sentence structure, the word verb most likely brought one thing to mind: action. The physical act of doing...
Online Course Development: Start to Finish
As more learning becomes digital, the mysteries of instructional design unfold. Luckily, the secrets to developing a great online course follow a logical process. But before developing an online course, there are several...
Curriculum Design
Curriculum Trends in Higher Education
As the new school year begins, we expect to see more of the following curriculum trends in higher education: Integrating curricular and co-curricular learning As K-12 schools receive less funding for the arts, community-based learning initiatives are on the rise. Many...
Should You Revamp Your Legacy Courses?
They may be technologically obsolete, but legacy courses contain riches you don’t want to leave behind in your eLearning development plans. New courses are ready to emerge from all those assets! If you transform rather than transfer legacy content, you can leverage...
Virtual Reality Technology: Changing the Education Industry Rapidly
Virtual reality technology is at the forefront of educational reform and rapidly changing the way society educates. Many years ago, the cost of virtual reality technology was too high to be integrated into the public and private school systems, but recent advancements...
Factors Affecting the Cost of eLearning
So, you are thinking about taking the plunge into eLearning development, but where do you begin? There are so many options out there. In this technological age we have so much information available to us, it is easy to get overwhelmed. Finding the perfect balance of...