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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...
3 Tips for Writing Great Alt-Text Descriptions
Alt-text, or alternative text, is one of the critical components of good content design. For those newer to the topic, alt-text sometimes is referred to as alt-attributes, alt-descriptions, or alt-tags. Great instructional designers, course developers, and content...
Productive Struggle: An Approach that Fosters Critical Thinking
This guest post was written by Kristin Owens, Assistant Director of STEM area. Why is math class not the setting for most made-for-TV movies? Frankly, it is often lacking many of the elements we find most entertaining: suspense,...
Improving the ID/SME Partnership for Effective Online Course Design
Are you facing challenges, such as limited resources and time constraints to create an online course? What about faculty buy-in? Designing an online course involves more than moving textbook content to slides. It also involves understanding how to engage a learner online. Sometimes faculty don’t understand the role and contribution of an instructional designer. IDs work with SMEs to create engaging and interactive online courses. But,…
3 High-Impact Openers for a High School eLearning Course
Online learning is not only popular for college courses, it's an equally important part of high school learning. A critical part of developing an engaging eLearning course is to understand what motivates the learner; in this case it is the high school student. We can...
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...
Putting Micro-credentials to Practice for K12 Professional Development
Micro-credentials might be just the right approach for your district’s professional development program. Think smaller and a more focused format. That’s microcredentials in a nutshell. How does micro-credentialing work? Professionals complete a discrete,...
Creating Authentic Learning Experiences Part 3: Integrating Authentic Learning in the Curriculum
This is the third installment in a four-part blog series about authentic learning experiences. In the first part we focused on what authentic learning is. The second part looked at how to develop authentic learning experiences. This post shows you how to integrate...
June 23-26, 2019 A Pass Educational Group at ISTE 2019
June 23-26 Philadelphia, PA The ISTE Conference is the most influential edtech event in the world and the must-attend event for thousands of educators looking to harness the power of technology to advance learning and teaching. Immerse yourself in powerful ideas and...
3 Characteristics of Well-Written Multiple Choice Assessment Items
Writing good multiple choice assessment items might seem easy, but creating questions that truly get at “what students know” takes a good deal of practice.