Understanding Motivation in Instructional Design Types of Motivation Attempting to motivate students is a difficult task in any classroom....

Instructional Design and Career Choices Instructional designers (ID's) have become an integral part to almost all businesses and...

Effective Online Learning Designing an effective online course requires intentional actions by the designer and instructor. Providing...

Sam and Instructional Design Brief History With the multitude of instructional design models out there, SAM has the least number of steps...

Why Theory is Important When Designing a Course Theories in any field are the foundation for application. We need to understand the...

The Impact of Covid on Educational Trends Mike Tyson who once said, “Everyone has a plan until you are punched in the mouth”. Covid-19...

Utilizing Video in Your Class to Enhance Engagement Much to the chagrin of classic 80's MTV, video has become the standard for sharing...

How eLearning Tools Can Enhance Instruction eLearning authoring tools tools are a key component in designing engaging and robust online...

Altering The World of Assessments Data driven instruction (DDI) is when data is used to drive instruction and assessment. Instructors...

Using Audio as a Learning Medium in Academia A Brief History Podcasts made their impact early in the 2000's as internet connections were...

Using Storyboards to Create a Well Designed Course What is storyboarding? For those that may not be aware of what storyboarding is and...

A Move Away from Traditional Grading Policy Synthesis Standards Based Grading (SBG) has been gaining ground as it measures the successful...

The Benefits of Social Media in Mobile Learning Mobile learning refers to any type of learning that happens when the learning is not at a...

Quick Look at Different Forms of Software Open Source Software (OSS) has been around for decades. The ability to take a piece of...

A Quick Look at the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 Synthesis The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 was the successor to the...

Adding Web 3.o to the Academic World A decentralized world is on its way. No longer will there be a centralized repository for...

Always Connected 21st Century Learners Synthesis Modern technology has become a topic of concern for many people. The advancement in...

Finding My Stride in Instructional Technologies When I first entered into the Instructional Technology program at Sul Ross University,...

Professional Development, to most it means online training courses, seminars, and conferences. However, there is much more to...

From the first consumer modems that reached the blistering speed of 56 kilobits per second to modern fiber based 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps)...