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Teaching Abroad: Ensuring A Good Opportunity Is Really Great!, Garry Mcdaniel
Teaching Abroad: Ensuring A Good Opportunity Is Really Great!, Garry Mcdaniel
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
With increased globalization, more colleges and universities are establishing faculty exchanges, study abroad programs, collaborative research efforts, and technical assistance programs with counterparts overseas. The result is enhanced faculty development, increased learning for students, added revenue generation, and prestige for the partnering institutions. For faculty, the opportunity to teach abroad can be a fulfilling and career-enhancing experience. However, if faculty are inadequately prepared and supported, valuable time and resources are wasted, student learning is impacted, and the image of the institution and faculty member may suffer. This post examines how faculty and their home institutions can ensure that teaching abroad …
Graduate Assistant Experience At The Institute - An Interview With Amie Tope, Amie Tope
Graduate Assistant Experience At The Institute - An Interview With Amie Tope, Amie Tope
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
Amie Tope, 2018 graduate of Franklin University’s Master of Science in Instructional Design & Learning Technology (IDLT) program, recently sat down for an interview with the IDLT program chair, Dr. Yi Yang. Amie not only graduated with a 4.0 GPA and gave a speech at the Winter 2018 Commencement—she also accepted a job offer before she graduated from the program! During this interview, she talks about her experience working as a graduate assistant for the International Institute for Innovative Instruction (the Institute), and offers suggestions for future graduate assistants.
Bridging Learners And Clients: Challenges And Strategies, Xiaopeng Ni
Bridging Learners And Clients: Challenges And Strategies, Xiaopeng Ni
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
As discussed in my previous post, “Clients as an Instructional Resource,” integrating clients into the curriculum is promising and potentially innovative. A client-based course emphasizes a pedagogical orientation to gain real-word experience through meeting the “expressed needs” from the outside of the classroom. Students create impactful work, collaborate with clients, and sense professional culture. During the past several months, by collaborating with other faculty members, I had opportunities to implement some of these ideas in two graduate courses: Marketing Communication Planning and Instructional Design Capstone. The results, based on students’ feedback, are positive and well demonstrate its pedagogical values.
What International Teaching Has Taught Me About Instructional Design, Niccole Hyatt
What International Teaching Has Taught Me About Instructional Design, Niccole Hyatt
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
As instructional designers, we rarely get an opportunity to interact with the learners who actually experience what we develop. We typically rely on learner evaluations, input from teaching faculty, or future enrollment numbers as evidence of positive instructional design interventions. However, there are many reasons why learning events succeed or fail. If a course is well designed, but the instructor is not up to par, can we blame the development of the course? What if the designer of a particular course is also the individual who teaches it? Taking it a step (or a flight) further, what if the class …
The Workflow Of Workflow, Jeannie Black
The Workflow Of Workflow, Jeannie Black
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
Have you ever heard the Lewis Carroll quote, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”? While it is true that not all who wander are lost, you shouldn’t completely forgo solid plans. Where do you start, though? With a cheat sheet, of course!
Applying Project Management Strategies In A Large Curriculum Conversion Project In Higher Education, Joel Gardner, Patrick A. Bennet, Niccole Hyatt, Kevin Stoker
Applying Project Management Strategies In A Large Curriculum Conversion Project In Higher Education, Joel Gardner, Patrick A. Bennet, Niccole Hyatt, Kevin Stoker
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
Higher education is undergoing great changes that require universities to adapt quickly, and making these changes can be difficult. One discipline that can aid in executing change is project management, which has developed a set of clear processes and strategies for completing initiatives quickly and effectively. Several authors have identified project management competencies as key in the practice of instructional design. However, in our experience it can be difficult to operationalize project management, particularly in instructional design projects that are large in scope and require a quick turnaround.
Mind Maps Allow Our Students To Paint A Picture!, Barbara Carder
Mind Maps Allow Our Students To Paint A Picture!, Barbara Carder
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
When Fred Barnard said that “a picture is worth a thousand words” back in 1927, odds are that he wasn’t thinking about mind maps in higher education, but his idiom was true then and it remains true today.
Five Challenges For New Online Instructors, Constance Wanstreet
Five Challenges For New Online Instructors, Constance Wanstreet
The International Institute for Innovative Instruction Blog
A boot camp for new online instructors focused on five challenges related to transitioning to online teaching, building spaces for learning, preparing students for the work of online learning, managing the classroom & assessing learner outcomes.