As I noted in a post yesterday, we in the education field have a tendency to give different names to similar things. I used service learning as an example. I frame what we do at Designers for Learning as “service learning”, but have been told that others now use “community-engaged learning”. I did some light […]
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One thing we do well within the field of education is confuse everyone by either calling similar things different names (e.g., instructional designer/learning experience designer/educational technologist, etc.) or to call different things the same name (e.g., online learning). Today, I learned from a journal editor that “Service Learning” is “out” and “Community Engaged Learning” is
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We all have blind spots (e.g., being unable to understand something or to see how important something is) when we are learning about something new. For instructional designers, blind spots come with the territory as we’re always learning something new. One of the biggest challenges is how do we start something new when we don’t know what we don’t
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Crab legs were harmed in the filming of this Semester Eve dinner. Celebrating the start of a new term. Cheers to the next 16 weeks!
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This is the third iteration of my personal blog. Until I figure out a good way to integrate my prior Drupal and Blogspot (yes, Blogspot) blogs, here are the links to my past musing … 2006 – Fall 2012: http://designedtoinspire.com/drupal/ 2005 – 2006: http://jmaddrell.blogspot.com/
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I dipped my toe in the PLENK2010 MOOC today with the following discussion post that I wanted to capture here … Dave Cormier wrote in the discussion board for the course … I’m not sure that the technologies are the greatest impediment to making this work. I think it’sa combination of a few things… off
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This sample proposal highlights a proposed knowledge management implementation plan. File: https://www.designedtoinspire.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Design Project Jennifer Maddrell.doc Knowledge Management Sample Design Project – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: Knowledge Management Sample Design Project ABC Insurance Company To: I.M. Da’man, National Underwriting Manager From: Jennifer Maddrell, Associate Underwriting Manager Date: 06/28/2008 Re: Underwriting Division
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