Why is instructional design essential for online learning?
Instructional design is the systematic and data-driven process of creating educational content and experiences. It's a crucial component in the world of online education, one that has been disregarded by many educational institutions for many reasons. The cost of not investing in instructional design or trained instructional designers goes beyond the quality of an educational product. It connects directly [...]
Cheating the system – cheating yourself
"Every castle built by human hands can be conquered by human hands" (Anonymous) This quote is a great representation of how I see the relationship between a Professor and students in an online class. Professors do everything they can to build a course that is engaging and insightful and students do everything they can to avoid the reading material [...]
Is online learning for you?
I have been teaching online classes full time for more than six years now. I taught a lot of different courses, with various Institutions, most of them around the topic of Intercultural studies. I have also developed a handful of courses and got to teach them multiple times. Teaching the course you developed is a unique experience in itself, [...]