Category - Instructional Design

THEORY Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching & Technology TOOLS Mootools Javascript Thumbnail Viewer DimDim – A Web-Conferencing Solution More about Moodle A code from answers.com which allows you to gloss an entire text...

A Multimedia Resource for Language Learning

5th March 2009

Course Design, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Teacher Skills, TEYL, Web Design

3 min read

I have been racking my brains over the past few weeks in vain. I am incapable of thinking of a proper topic myself and that prevents me from starting work on the assignment which reads as follows This assignment consists of two interrelated...

Online Language Lessons – Idea Bank

11th January 2009

Collaborative Learning, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Teacher Skills, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL

2 min read

It looks like more and more language teaching is being done on the web. Let me summarize what online language teachers have on offer, what they do or could do in theory. I will list several examples from Curtis J. Bonk & Ke Zhang’s...

Sources of Frustration for E-Learners

8th January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Instructional Design, Observations, Statistics

1 min read

According to research, e-learners are likely to be frustrated by technical difficulties communication breakdowns Source: Hara., N (2000). Student Distress In a Web-Based Distance Education Course.

Interactivity & The 5 Ts that Make it...

6th January 2009

Collaborative Learning, Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Teacher Skills

1 min read

Ian Forsyth (Teaching & Learning Materials & The Internet, 3rd edition, p. 135) defines interactivity as emulating the traditional classroom He lists the 5 Ts that cause interactivity to fail on the Internet (pp. 19 -23) time...

E-Courseware Design: Issues

5th January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations, Teacher Skills

2 min read

Let me list some of the topical issues that keep emerging and need to be addressed asap. usability – what I mean here is all the extra clicks that either my students or I make, which takes time. Distributing courseware in space often...

Web 2.0 Synonyms & Opposites

3rd January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Web 2.0 Buzz Words

2 min read

The opposite of hyperlinking is RSS aka really simple syndication. Users find content on the web and hyperlink to it . The opposite is subscribing to syndicated content aka RSS feeds. RSS readers are also known as aggregators. Metadata or...

How Long Should One Online Language Lesson...

1st January 2009

Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills

7 min read

To begin with, I am not aware of any reliable statistics. I can only draw on my personal experience and summarize a number of related Google search results. It is obvious, I hope, that it is impossible to spend more than 3 clock hours talking...