In the previous post (Get Organized!) I mentioned the ADDIE model for instructional design. For many, ADDIE is overly simplistic and doesn’t provide guidance for every part of a teaching/learning experience in the online learning environment. But that’s ok, because its just a guide. It’s up to each of us to make sure that we provide the structure, content, and instructor time with learners that is needed to meet the learning objectives of the curriculum, the course and the individual learner. No model will account the complexities of every situation we might encounter.
But for the purposes of talking about how to build your course online, which is what this blog and accompanying website are all about a simple model to help us organize our efforts is all that’s really needed.
That’s why I came up with the 4 Ds. First, I needed to organize my own thinking and Read the rest of this entry »
This will be a short post. Taking up where we left off in the last post (”5. What have I got inside, in the way of physical energy, ideas, knowledge, skills that I could use to generate some income?”)…The first thing to do is start thinking about what you know in an organized way. There is a kind of thinking process you go through, no matter what you’re trying to do, the starts with opening up to possibility. Then comes paying attention to everything around you that is even remotely related to what you’re thinking about. Then comes narrowing down your thinking to something you can focus on and try to accomplish.
I’m a big fan of mnemonics and tricks for remembering, so, after studying what professionals call the “Design Cycle” process I came up with what I call the 4 Ds: Discovery, Design, Development, Delivery.
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This is another, and probably huge, part of your non-financial assets. What can you do or what do you know that someone else would be willing to pay good money for?
What does it take to sell what you know? Well that’s what the whole “Build Your Course Online” project is about.
First of all, Gail and I know a lot about this. So when we got to question number 5, Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a lot to be nervous about right now, what with the economy in dire straights and layoffs increasing every week. But the real truth for any of us is that we only have ourselves to solve these difficulties. Ain’t nobody gonna bail any of us out. And even if they did, they’d be using our own
money to do it.
So I say, why not get organized and get started on your own bailout. The same bailout we’ve been using for time eternal: self-reliance and mutual aid.
The fist thing each of us has to do is take a personal inventory by answering these five simple questions:
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But for the purposes of talking about how to build your course online, which is what this blog and accompanying website are all about a simple model to help us organize our efforts is all that’s really needed.
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