Amanda Major

[heading]Instructional Design Project Management in Higher Education[/heading]
Many times, when we think of online faculty professional development we consider workshops, courses and tutorials we can develop to assist faculty in course design and technology implementation for their online course. At my institution, the University of South…[Read more]

Dear ADDIE,

I am an instructional designer (ID) at a large university who works on a large team of instructional designers (15+); we collaborative on a variety of projects that I mostly enjoy. For example, we may work with our faculty and several support teams to (re)design faculty courses, collaborate with other instructional designers to…[Read more]

In this post, I’d like to start a conversation around the topic of OER efforts at your university or even individual projects you’re working on with faculty. The goal is to be able to share what’s been working for you in hopes that your colleagues can use the information as a springboard into their own efforts to increase access and affordability…[Read more]

Dear ADDIE,

I am an instructional designer at a small community college, but I am experiencing a problem that will probably resonate with other instructional designers: the faculty with whom I work (mostly well) appear to have little understanding of what an instructional designer does and, as a result, limit the contributions that I can make…[Read more]

Narrated PowerPoints – how my faculty love them!  ADDIE, I have an issue that I suspect is one that is facing instructional designers and faculty developers all across the country.  The faculty at my Large Public University believe that Narrated PowerPoints are the best way to bridge the gap between challenging content and the online learning e…[Read more]