Author: ChristopherBergeron
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The ARCS Model of Student Motivation
Student motivation is essential to effective instruction. Unmotivated learners will tune out and shut down. Motivation can come from a variety of sources intrinsic motivation can come from curiosity, a sense of achievement, self-efficacy, and confidence. Extrinsically motivation can come from the offer of reward or fear of punishment from an authority. There are ways…
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Different Models of Instructional Design
With instructional design encompassing a wide and complex set of skills and tasks having a model or framework to follow can be quite helpful. There are a wide variety of instructional design models that instructional designers leverage to help with best practices and the help ensure steps are not left out. As you review the different…
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Writing Quality Performance Objectives
Writing performance objectives is one of the more well-known components of the instructional design process. Performance objectives are sometimes referred to as behavioral objectives. The terms are important since essentially we will be looking to have learners demonstrate their learning through performing an observable behavior. There are of course many terms used and performance objectives…
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Needs Assessment in Instructional Design
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Abraham Maslow. Maslow’s hammer is a cognitive bias that I bring up because instructional designers can sometimes see every problem as an opportunity for training. Instructional designers are also often quick to…
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Rapid Prototyping in Instructional Design
Rapid prototyping is beginning to be seen in instructional design more often. In essence rapid prototyping is the development of working samples of learning materials, especially eLearning materials, which are then evaluated and revised. In many ways, it is an approach that emphasizes the formative evaluation process that should be a core component of each…
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Focus on Learning Objectives NOT Technology
My parents were not followers of the “Children should be seen and not heard” philosophy but they did like to use the line to joke around from time to time sometimes joking that “Children should neither be seen nor heard” my parents were jokers and found it very funny given they worked hard to actively…
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Transcribe Your Instructional Videos
One of the key areas in course design that I see neglected is the area of accessibility. This poses several significant issues. The first is when you forget that “ALT” tags and audio transcripts are for accessibility and not SEO you neglect an important population. Second, the ADA and 508 requirements are not to be…
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Finding Free Media (aka. Modeling Copyright Compliance)
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 2-hours A workshop covering copyright, fair use, and options for instructional media and student/teacher presentations. The workshop introduces creative commons, sharing how it can be used in instructional media and student/teacher presentations, and an introduction to the common creative commons media search engines and other free resources. Learning…
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Developing a Personal Learning Network Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 2-hours An introduction to social media for teachers outlining the ways Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook groups, and LinkedIn can be used to develop a personalized professional learning network. Learning Objectives: 1. Setup a comprehensive and professional social media presence. 2. Identify educational influencers and sources of information. 3. Demonstrate…
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Blogging for Teachers Workshop
Audience: K12 teachers Format: live in person 4-hours An introductory workshop on how to set up a wordpress.com blog for teachers. The course covers the setup and configuration of a blog, the identification of appropriate blogging topics, leveraging a blog for professional development, and how to use a blog to foster school to home communication.…
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