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I had a lovely lunch with my friend Enilda Romero-Hall today on her (also lovely) University of Tampa campus. As we were catching up and sharing/comparing, we engaged in a conversation common to those of us who teach “online”. It’s never enough to say, “I teach an online course” for the other person to have…

The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE): Behind the Numbers was released on March 29th. The report by Quality Matters and Eduventures identifies institutional approaches to online learning. It will take me some to make my way through this report, but here is an infographic highlighting the contents. One area that jumps out is the…

Designers for Learning is a proud member of the Chicago Literacy Alliance (CLA), a coalition of over 130 nonprofits dedicated toward a mission of a 100% literate Chicago. The CLA’s Literacenter, a 27,000 sqft co-working space, is Designers for Learning’s “home office” and my home away from home. I took this picture today at the…

My friend, Enilda Romero-Hall from The University of Tampa, is conducting a study titled “Instructional Design Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean” with her colleagues Erika Petersen and Adriana Santos (also from The University of Tampa), as well as Leonor Adams from Old Dominion University. As Enilda shared in the Designers for Learning Facebook…

Our last three quarterly Chicago Literacy Alliance confabs have explored issues highlighted in the International Literacy Association (ILA) “What’s hot in literacy 2018 Report”, a global survey of nearly 2,100 respondents from 91 countries and territories. While many of the findings are related to children/early literacy, there’s overlap with adult literacy issues and hot topics. For…