Shelly Wyatt

You are so right, Tina! For me, though, it seems like what I need for self-care varies from week-to-week or even day-to-day. Another factor is what kinds of care I need to provide my family. One of the main ways I have engaged in self-care has been making sure I have time to cook (which is easier working from home).

Thanks Paige and Rebecca for your posts!

Paige, I think you made an important point about incentives: what do faculty at your institution find rewarding. The challenge, though, is that there can be a lot of variation on any campus regarding what faculty value: time, money, certification, access to support or services, etc.

Rebecca, thanks so…[Read more]

Hi Josh! Thanks for opening this interesting can of worms!

I think your observation is spot on and I too try to pay attention to language and how it shapes our perceptions.

Conceding that CMS is a more accurate label, are there benefits to using the LMS label? If there are benefits, what are they?

Thanks, Andrew!

I am definitely going to check out Degreed.com to see what they have in terms of resources for IDs.

Can you provide some details regarding your monthly faculty development webinars? How do you determine what topics of cover?

Hi Andrew and thanks for posting! Wow! You are a superhero for making all of those videos! Thanks so much for providing the sample. Is there any way other instructional designers or faculty development specialists might be able to replicate some of these results without making individual videos?

HI Andrew and thanks for posting! End-of-course surveys do provide important feedback although, in online classes, I can see where faculty could easily dismiss the significance of the feedback because they lack the face-to-face context. I was wondering: do you share the overall feedback (trends) from students regarding online courses? I ask…[Read more]

Hi Dago! Research that focuses on analytics is definitely a robust area of investigation. What can be daunting, as you noted, is the management of that data. Not all instructional designers may feel comfortable with quantitative data and may need support from a statistician on campus. Another important component to conducting research in the…[Read more]