Posted by under Columnists,People,Reading Responses,Research,Theory on February 13 2008, 15 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 on my blog [...]

Posted by under Columnists,Reading Responses,Theory,Websites on February 11 2008, 23 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 [...]

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 [...]

Here are my links for this week. I have to warn you, there are more than a few. I wonder if I should post them all or be more selective? At any rate, here’s what I found interesting this week: Remove Clutter in the Background of Photographs. I stink at photo editing, so I’m always [...]

Posted by under Blogroll,Research,Theory on July 5 2007, 0 comments

I just ran across this, and I think it’s great. Go see the Crash Course in Learning Theory. Talk about tailoring instruction to today’s crowd! BTW, I’ve also started browsing the blog it comes from, Creating Passionate Users. It’s a hoot!