Reflection: Educase Horizon Report Implication for Micro-credentials

(This is a guest blog by Rodney Steppe, my Educause mentee. This is Rodney’s first blog, and I am thrilled he took my suggestion to reflect on this report.) I am writing this in response to the 2023 Educause Horizon Report.  I agree there are benefits to micro-credentials. For example, not everyone is seeking a degree. That being said, obtaining

Online Teaching Readiness Needs Assessment

I use this questionnaire at the beginning of course design collaborations with instructors. It helps me gather their prior knowledge and better address where to begin the instructional design process. Also, surveys serve as a way to inform the participants. Feel free to adapt and use it with your instructors, as this one is based on the Canvas learning management

Snapshot: Remote Teaching and Learning Support

Remote Work On March 17, 2020, I packed up my workspace and went home to work remotely for the University of California-Los Angeles since the campus closed during winter quarter and everything went online on March 10th. The week between March 10th and the 17th was full of technology training on-campus activities meeting face-to-face with instructors in collaborative triage with

VR with Google Cardboard for Irish Literature Hybrid Course

Note. It was brought to my attention that the Gooogle Cardboard has been sunsetted! Read more about this in the Wikipedia entry. This blog will continue highlighting one of my design projects; however, the Google Cardboard Camera App link no longer exists. I co-designed a new Irish literature hybrid course with an English professor and her teaching assistants (TA) at

My Courses Available on Schoology’s Public Resources

In my departure from a College that uses Schoology, I thought of ways that I might be able to save my online course designs for future use even though my new workplace doesn’t use this learning management system (LMS).  Fortunately, I was able to save the entire course files, not just the individual material. First, I saved them to my

Accessibility Policy for Postsecondary Distance Education

Note. This is specific to the Schoology learning management system and other technologies and protocols we use on our campus. This statement is based on the policy that I used at my former workplace for my instructional design graduate assistantship at the University of South Alabama’s Innovation in Learning Center. I recently added the use of headers, which was missing

Google Provides Free Professional Development Online for Educators

I just completed free professional development offered to educators on Google Apps for Education to become a Google Certified Educator. Level 1 is on the fundamentals of Google Suite (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, & YouTube), Google Classroom, and Google Drive.  It’s a competency-based, self-directed learning program. I’ve been using Google Apps since 2009. This training was a great way to

Join me at the MSERA 2016 in Mobile, Alabama!

Join me in Mobile, AL this November 2nd-4th for the Mid-South Educational Research Associations (MSERA) 2015 annual meeting.  Click this link to see the full conference schedule.  The conference takes place at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel on Water Street downtown.  For more information on the MSERA, visit their Website.  The great thing about #MSERA is that they are friendly and

Cognitive Benefits of ePortfolios