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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?’ The important question is, Does the...

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...

Improving the ID/SME Partnership for Effective Online Course Design

Most colleges are creating online courses that serve the learners’ needs for flexibility and convenience. A positive partnership between an instructional designer, or ID, and a subject matter expert, or SME, can lead to a dynamic online course. It’s all about...

Creating Authentic Learning Experiences Part 4: Assessment of Authentic Learning

This is the fourth and final installment in the four-part blog series on authentic learning. We’ll explore how assessments fit into the authentic learning process. So far in the series we have discussed the components of authentic learning, the elements of a...

Creating Authentic Learning Experiences Part 2: Developing Authentic Learning Experiences

This is the second installment in a four-part blog series on authentic learning. We’ll explore what the environments look like that facilitate authentic learning and how to create them. The first blog explored what authentic learning is and how it can better...

Creating Authentic Learning Experiences Part 1: William Horton’s eLearning by Design

This is the first in a four-part blog series on authentic learning. We’ll start by defining what authentic learning is and how to design authentic learning experiences. Then, we’ll explore how to incorporate those experiences into existing curriculum. Finally, we’ll...