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How to get an Instructional Design education without paying tuition

dr.curry @ February 13, 2008 # 13 Comments

Well, yesterday Cammy has responded to my post on the disconnect between academic instructional design and practical instructional design. Subsequently, the last five hours or so has been interesting. First of all, I see that Stephen Downes has mentioned our conversation on OLD~Daily, and that has led to a number of comments [...]

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Instructional design in academia–where theory and practice RARELY meet

dr.curry @ February 11, 2008 # 20 Comments

I’ve had Cammy Bean’s posts running through my head all weekend. I’ve been mulling over the differences between what I teach my students that instructional design and design theory are and how we actually do it. Anyone involved with the field at all knows that there is a huge gap between the two.
I remember [...]

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Links for 2-02-08 to 2-09-08

dr.curry @ February 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’m behind on posting last week’s links, so I’ll get to them first thing this morning. From my Google Reader:

Instructional Design - If - When - How Much from The Learning Circuits Blog Yet someone else inspired by Cammy Bean at Learning Visions. I’ll need to post on this one by itself.
Create A Webquest [...]

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This one’s for you, Cammy Bean! Or, is the role of the instructional designer changing?

dr.curry @ February 8, 2008 # 4 Comments

I’ve never shied away from my adoration of Cammy Bean and her Learning Visions blog. If you don’t know who she is, she describes herself by saying:

I’m Cammy Bean, the author of Learning Visions. My business card currently says “Manager of Instructional Design”, but I do a bit of everything. If you’re interested, read my [...]

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Which blogs do I look forward to reading?

dr.curry @ October 9, 2007 # 2 Comments

Right now my Google Reader has a total of 132 subscriptions. Some are news sites, some are sports sites, some blogs of family or friends, but mostly they are blogs dealing some way with Educational Technology. Some blogs are ones that post sporadically, others have information that I find tangentially applicable to what [...]

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