NEWS | RESEARCH - 2015 Survey on Online Education by OLC

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If you teach online, you might have wondered how distance education is doing as opposed to traditional education. For me, I've wondered about the future of my faculty colleagues who teach on-campus as opposed to those of us who teach online.

I've been in and out traveling but wanted to point you to the 2015 survey on the "health" of distance education as reported by the OLC last month.

So, in case you missed this:

2015 Survey on Online Education by Online Learning Consortium
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/2015SurveyInfo.pdf

Here is a 1-hour slide presentation of the OLC survey entitled, "Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States"
http://www.brainshark.com/pearsonschool/vu?pi=zFuzN896GzMmpAz0


Read the Babson College page on the survey HERE:
http://www.babson.edu/news-events/babson-news/Pages/2016-babson-releases-2015-survey-of-online-learning.aspx

Simple C.R.A.P. Test for Your Online Courses (POSTER)

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When creating online content and developing online course materials for your students, you should make sure that they follow good design principles.

The C.R.A.P. is a checklist that can help you gauge the visual impact that your material has on its audience. The acronym C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity for short. These are important design elements that should be considered when creating online content on your school's LMS, on your website or company's intranet. For details on each element and how it relates to your online content, read my previous article HERE.
So, when you are doing content development, make sure that all of your online course content passes the C.R.A.P. test. 

Click to download the poster.

A Simple C.R.A.P. Test for Your Online Courses

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Does your online course pass for C.R.A.P.?

In instructional design, it is important to design courses that visually pass the "sniff" test. The "sniff" test I'm referring to is the one that tests for contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity or C.R.A.P. for short. This started me thinking about the courses that I design and how they would pass the C.R.A.P. evaluation. Would they pass muster?  I have to delve a little deeper.

NEWS | I'M BACK!!! PLANNING THE NEW YEAR!!!

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Hey all! By now, all of my teacher friends are back to business in their classrooms. My content developers and instructional designer buddies are back to being knee deep in projects for the new year. I am working on some interesting online instructional projects this time along with preparing for an online mini-course.  Here are some initial thoughts: