http://lingos.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/a-60-minute-masters-in-instructional-design/ Learning Where it Really Matters Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:50:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://lingos.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/a-60-minute-masters-in-instructional-design/#comment-8 lingos Wed, 28 May 2008 17:12:19 +0000 http://lingos.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-8 Thanks for acknowledging our focus on enagagement at LINGOs. We try! It definitely is not always easy. one of the strategies we promote is the training of on-line facilitators and instructional designers via our Virtual Mastery Course series. These courses (facilitated on-line by an instructor located in Panama - yes, we drink our own water!) take place on a regular basis. Details available at: http://ngolearning.org/courses/availablecourses/online/default.aspx Thanks for acknowledging our focus on enagagement at LINGOs. We try! It definitely is not always easy. one of the strategies we promote is the training of on-line facilitators and instructional designers via our Virtual Mastery Course series. These courses (facilitated on-line by an instructor located in Panama – yes, we drink our own water!) take place on a regular basis. Details available at: http://ngolearning.org/courses/availablecourses/online/default.aspx

]]> http://lingos.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/a-60-minute-masters-in-instructional-design/#comment-5 Nancy White Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:36 +0000 http://lingos.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-5 I'd add one more bit here, for interactive online learning gatherings. And my assumption is that you include this in instructional design, but I don't always SEE it in instructional design and that is interaction design and facilitation. It goes back to the "more bad meetings." I think you at LINGOS have really paid attention to engagement. A lot of people don't and they focus ONLY on the content, not on how learners engage with the content and each other for making meaning of the content WHEN using a social learning strategy. (I recognize that is not the only learning strategy!) I’d add one more bit here, for interactive online learning gatherings. And my assumption is that you include this in instructional design, but I don’t always SEE it in instructional design and that is interaction design and facilitation. It goes back to the “more bad meetings.” I think you at LINGOS have really paid attention to engagement. A lot of people don’t and they focus ONLY on the content, not on how learners engage with the content and each other for making meaning of the content WHEN using a social learning strategy. (I recognize that is not the only learning strategy!)

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