Updates: Sorry

I took Sli.do, the audience response tool, for a spin today with less than 30 seconds to get up and running. It looks like a promising option and made Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning for the first time in this past year’s survey. Key features include: Questions Polls Brainstorming Idea Q&A Event Analytics Other…

Designers for Learning currently has five teams of advanced instructional design students completing open educational resources for adults working to improve their literacy and other vital skills. One of the hardest aspects of their design challenge is becoming familiar with the needs, the learners, and the adult basic skills educational context. ProLiteracy, the largest adult…

Truth be told … until I started working on our projects to design educational supports for adult basic skills education, I don’t think “empathy” for the learner played a huge part in my design decisions. Sure, I thought of the learners, but more as some set of characteristics and/or demographic data. From what I see…