Archive for the ‘instructional design’ Category

The end of assessment as we know it

02 Feb 2012 at 08:57

enzofsilva

instructional design

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“The concept of a job is going away” (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth is, most educators teach to assess. Yes, the end goal of the learning experience is to prepare learners to succeed in [...]

Learning Resource Metadata

05 Dec 2011 at 10:01

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, instructional design, learning, open source, Web 2.0

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Something that bothers me sometimes is the poor search results yielded when one looks for educational resources. So many good projects I know of simply don’t show up in a simple Google search no matter what keywords I add into the search field. Results, in generalm are often irrelevant and require a lot of filtering to finally find GOOD learning materials. That is [...]

Funny Amazon Product Reviews – Learn From Them

10 Jan 2011 at 15:19

enzofsilva

fun, instructional design, learning, Life in General

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It is true, with the World Wide Web invading everyone’s homes and pockets with handheld devices everyone has a chance to be a comedian these days. Posts like this listing funny Amazon product reviews are popular these days. This post from Geekosystem collects even more creative reviews; 50 of them, to be more exact! There’s [...]

The 4 R’s of Brainstorming New Ideas

19 Aug 2010 at 21:41

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, instructional design, learning, schools

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In his free eBook “Designing for the Web”, Mark Boulton suggests a 4R approach to brainstorming ideas for a project. While the eBook is geared toward Web Design, those working as Instructional Designers and educators can also benefit from these tips as creative professionals. Here are the 4 R’s as presented by Mark. “Revolution: Revolution [...]