Beginning in January, Baruch College in Manhattan will begin a new instructional design and corporate training program within the Continuing and Professional Studies division. Joanne Tzanis is heading up the effort to get 15 courses up and running for the winter / spring 2007 semester – see also page 12 of the .pdf course catalog. […]
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The old blog has been silent lately. It is because I am stuck – driven to distraction, so to speak. Looking back at recent blog posts, I see that I am clearly trying to crack a shared code within seemingly separate and distinct learning and instructional theories. After reading and hearing my ramblings about dynamic,
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I made a big omission earlier this week in my post about the blogs I regularly read. I forgot to mention Christian Long's blog Think:Lab. So often, I share common curiosity with the topics he covers in his blog. Today, his post "A school by any other name" sparked something in me. I have been
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Jane has done it again! She provided me with my morning dose of inspiration by linking us to a free e-book – Cappuccino U. As I have posted on recently (here and here), there is (to me anyway) a common thread connecting discussions about informal, networked, emergent, coproduced, dynamic (or whatever the word of the
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As was announced last week, nominations for the 2006 Edublog Awards are open. Why is this exciting? Because it means an introduction to more really thoughtful people! I currently aggregate 237 edtech–ish feeds (some more ed than tech and vice versa). I found out about a few of these blogs during past Edublog Awards. Each
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Performance improvement is generally the intended outcome of learning, right? So, why do we tend to address them separately? People are far more likely to ask me if I am learning a lot in school versus whether my performance as an instructional designer is improving – which should be the desired outcome, right? However, I
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I headed off to my local polling place bright and early today. With only a few choices on the ballot in this mid-term election, casting my vote was a quick process. Unfortunately, figuring out how to use the electronic polling machine was the hard part! Envision walking into a booth and facing a giant paper
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Does Internet based content find you or do you find it? There seems to be two types of Internet users: 1) searchers and 2) surfers. Searchers seek information. Surfers seek inspiration. While a searcher can sometimes be a surfer and vice versa, searchers say, “Need it? Google it”, and surfers say, “I Stumbled on it”
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Drupal CMS Academy – Live Web Cast #8 Join us on Monday November 6th at 9:00 p.m. ET (North America) Click here for Global Times Please join us at the Drupal CMS Academy for our weekly live web cast as we share our latest and greatest Drupal tips and tricks!
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