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Designing & Organizing Your Yellowdig Board: Folksonomy & Taxonomy in Yellowdig

By: Mary Loder

July 4, 2018

If you need a little background on what Yellowdig is and how to use it, refer to this: Yellowdig: A Social Learning Platform.With a little poking around, you’ll notice the useful feature of pinning a post to the top of the board, ensuring students se ...

Letting Go of Tradition: Universal Instructional Design for Adult Learners

By: Angie Bond

March 23, 2017

The words “college student” evoke an image of a fresh-faced youth, eager to take in their first years of independence in the dorms of a university, and pursue their education to begin a career. Indeed, the description of a “traditional” student is a ...

Fair Use Week – Fair Use in Online Instruction

By: Anali Perry

February 22, 2017

This week is Fair Use Week, a dedicated time to promote and discuss the opportunities Fair Use gives us in our daily activities. Fair Use is probably the most powerful component of U.S. Copyright law, and the most misunderstood. Section 107 of the U. ...

9 Ways to Make Your Course Easier to Navigate

By: Brendan Lake

April 22, 2016

Easy course navigation is a critical component of a great online course. According to Quality Matters (QM), an organization dedicated to improving online course quality, one of the requirements for a QM certified course is that the, “Course nav ...

5 Things Successful Instructors Do When the Semester is Over

By: Peter Van Leusen

May 5, 2014

With finals week coming to an end and grading about to be completed, it is only natural to make a mad dash for the door and enjoy a well-deserved break. There is no question that we all need a break to relax and find inspiration, but befo ...

Introducing the ASU Instructional Designers [Infographic]

By: Marc Van Horne

October 17, 2013

PDF download used with permissionAbout 40 staff members at Arizona State University have the words Instructional Design or Instructional Designer in their job title. Even though there are a lot of them about (and some have been at ASU for quite a lon ...

Writing Measurable Learning Objectives

By: Tracy Smith

July 2, 2012

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable, learning objectives. Effective learning objectives use action verbs to describe what you want your students to ...

Why Students Cheat

By: Steven Crawford

June 15, 2012

When faculty are asked “why students cheat?” they often cite different reasons from what a student would say. In this video, I highlight why students cheat. We begin be looking at some of the research on why students cheat and then we look at a theor ...

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