#keepteaching through Sadness, with Hope – Processing Emotions in Times of COVID-19 By Allie Alayan for AACE Review When I learned the news that the institution I work at was moving all online for the remainder of the semester, like many of the universities in the country, I felt overwhelmed with sadness. I did not have … Read more
Corona Reading List: Let’s #KeepTeaching By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The valuable professional lesson from COVID-19 for me as an instructional designer is in appreciating the faculty response. At a research 1 institution it may sometimes seem that teaching is not the priority. The collective effort of the … Read more
Poltergeist-inspired Pedagogy and Haunted House Heutagogy: Three Ideas to Embrace the Holiday Spirit(s) By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The month of October can often feel a little flat in the educational calendar. The energy and excitement of the first days of school are over, and the promise of a holiday break is still over a month … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (3): A picture is worth a thousand words? A Summary of Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Imagine you want to learn a new skill. This skill can be as pedestrian as how to correctly poach eggs or as complex as how to play a Bach oboe concerto. If you are anything like one-third of … Read more
E-Books as Open Educational Resources: Local Government in North Carolina Textbook By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review According to several educational technology foresight studies, e-books have become an influential emerging technology for teaching and learning that is likely to play a significant role in higher education (cf., Horizon Report 2010, Horizon Report 2011, Innovative Pedagogy … Read more
Create a Hybrid Creature in Scratch 3.0 By Angela Brown for AACE Review Scratch 3.0 has a great library of Sprites (characters and props that you can animate). These often have multiple costumes so that you can animate the characters. Once children have experimented with the interface, they soon begin to … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (2): Losing viewers to the great abyss? Basic UX principles for wayfinding By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a website you enjoy visiting. It can be for news, shopping, video viewing, etc. How do you feel as you work your way through content? Do you naturally know where to click, how to navigate, and how … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (1): How will you read this page? By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a science lab in your mind; now picture a lecture hall; finally, picture a piano studio. Most likely, each space that you imagined looked very different. Just as the setup of a physical classroom implies a particular … Read more
How Students with Depression Experience Online Learning: Tracy Orr’s Research Offers Pointers for Course Developers By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The learning journey, with its mission of moving students from a place of unknowing to a place of mastery, is inherently challenging. When undertaken in a fully online environment, often alongside full-time work and family responsibilities, it takes … Read more
Informal or Non-formal learning with comics – the CIELL project By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Multi-lingualism is a priority for a global community and the need to learn a second language is high for business purposes, education or travelling around the world. The European Commission (EC) considers languages as one of the 8 … Read more