My buddy posted a link to Quill.org, a website with free writing and grammar activities. While Quill is marketed to K-12, it’s valuable for adult learners working to build their literacy skills. To that end, CrowdEd Learning will be sharing alignments to the College & Career Readiness Standards for over 500 lessons, activities, and assessments

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a couple of initiatives to round up interview questions that instructional designers are likely to face on the job hunt. There has been quite a bit of excitement around these projects, so I thought I’d take a second to highlight them here: Lizzie Crowston posted a link to

As reported in this article from Inside Higher Education, lawsuits filed by the National Association of the Deaf against Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will continue after requests to dismiss were denied. Central to the lawsuits are the obligations the universities have to caption content in their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other materials

I often say that founding Designers for Learning was like dumping out a 1,000 piece puzzle and having to put it together without seeing the picture on the box. In truth, it’s like encountering THOUSANDS of puzzle pieces and having to figure out which go with MY puzzle and then trying to figure out what

As we celebrate #NationalLibraryWeek, it’s appropriate to recognize that libraries are on the front lines of digital inclusion issues. Soon after Designers for Learning began seeking out subject matter experts for our service-learning initiatives, we realized librarians were doing some of the most creative work to support adult literacy, including digital literacy. Therefore, it should

Since the mid-2000s when I first set up my own website, I’ve said that I’m a self-taught web designer with a bad teacher. I still only know just enough to get by managing bare-bones WordPress installations for my personal and Designers for Learning’s websites. Aside from keeping them up and running, I’m always on the

If you’ll be attending the #aect19 convention in Las Vegas, please mark your calendar for our Accessibility Design Slam workshop on Wednesday, October 23rd at 9:00 – 11:50 a.m. The workshop team includes: Yvonne Earnshaw, University of Memphis Amy Lomellini, Molloy College Jennifer Maddrell, Designers for Learning Jason McDonald, Brigham Young University Esther Michela, Brigham

Check out this profile of CrowdED Learning in the Adult Literacy Education Journal published by ProLiteracy! It’s been so fun to watch Jeff take this spark of an idea and turn it into a living “thing” that people not only understand but value. If you haven’t done so already, please check out his existing roster

I’ve been a member of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) since becoming a graduate student. I gave my first “academic” presentation at an annual AECT convention on a literature review I completed in my master’s program, and I launched Designers for Learning as a concept during a convention some 5 years ago.