With many employees “working from home” during the pandemic, professional development programs are being challenged to create meaningful and engaging opportunities for adult learners, despite the physical distance. Jasmine Bishop and Enoch Park developed an online pilot course … Read more
While being a popular search term, ‘Zoom fatigue’ is not a clearly defined concept, but rather a self-attributed state of mental exhaustion. As Fosslien and West (2020) stated ‘you’re more exhausted at the end of your workday than … Read more
Augmented reality (AR) offers a new way of seeing and interacting with the learner’s natural environment. Augmented reality describes the addition of a computer assisted contextual layer of information to the physical world, thereby creating an enhanced experience. … Read more
In the past, my work as an instructional designer has been split approximately 50-50 between designing and developing educational technology projects and products and supporting teaching and learning scenarios for adult learners in continuing education, mostly in-person. This … Read more
While teachers across the globe are scrambling to pivot towards online teaching and learning, SITE–Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education is embarking on a new, timely endeavor: A competence-driven professional development course series for teacher educators on integrating and leveraging digital technologies for … Read more
Tinkering, making, participatory design, design thinking – I love creative and haptic approaches to teaching, learning and web development. Over the past two years, I have been traveling back to Germany on several occasions to teach or co-teach … Read more
Chris Devers is a special interest group leader (SIG TREND) and long-term executive committee member for the AACE E-Learn conference. I cannot imagine AACE conferences without his energy and wits. After having the great pleasure of working on a … Read more
Data Snap was developed by the Criminal Justice Innovation Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Infographics display information in engaging and interactive formats that allow audiences to manipulate and explore data. They may help … Read more
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
One of the most rewarding aspects of my academic writing journey has been organizing and contributing to special issues. As the many different outlets for edtech research can feel overwhelming to readers and writers alike, the advantage of … Read more