Instructional Design
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College and University Faculty Need Better Professional Development for Teaching Online
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been feeling intense pressure in recent years to fill US workforce and industry skills gaps, and to remedy systemic social inequities, develop responsible…
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Effective Ways of Evaluating Productivity Tools and Software for Education
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Successful technology integration into education depends largely on whether or not teachers promote technology use in their classrooms (Ottenbreit-Leftwich & Kimmons, 2020). It has become fairly common for…
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Effective Technology Integration
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. When the U.S. Department of Education (DOE, 2017) released its National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) in 2010, educators and policymakers were given a common vision and plan of…
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Best Practices for Teaching Online
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. Online teaching is a very different process from face-to-face instruction. In determining which virtual or distance instructional practices are best, however, online teaching should be judged on the…
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Do Adults Learn in a Different Way from Children?
by Lorraine D. Ledger, M.S. The belief that adults learn through a different process than children undergirds the assumptions of popular adult learning theories, but some experts don’t agree with this view. When…
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Andragogy: Addressing the Unique Needs of Adult Learners
by Lorraine Ledger Adult learners approach learning in response to life issues which confront them. Adults have a desire to learn in order to produce specific outcomes. In other words, learning is a…
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Connectivism: Human-Computer Relationships in a Digital Age
The ability to connect to existing knowledge is more important than building new knowledge.
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Cognitivism: Hidden Mental Processes of the Human Brain
Cognitivism is about mental processes involved in learning, which itself can be described as the acquisition of knowledge through experience.
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Constructivism: Critical Thinking in a Social Context
Learners construct their own understanding of the world by experiencing it and reflecting on those experiences, applying prior learning to new or unfamiliar situations.
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Behaviorism: Key People and Concepts
Best used for teaching simple facts or training workers in sequential procedures.
