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EdTech

Recording Video for Your Online Course

Recorded video content can be a great way to introduce you students to new concepts, provide in-depth lectures, or even just say “hello!” If you’ve never provided recorded video to

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Instructional Design

Course Building Tips for Commonly Missed Standards

Never worked in an LMS template before or worried about the course quality review process? Use our instructional designers’ favorite course building tips below to help prepare yourself for some

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Instructional Design

Risepoint Course Map

Why Course Map? A course map is a structured tool that is used to organize and reinforce the flow ideas and deliverables throughout a course, allowing ideas and deliverables to

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Instructional Design

Writing Effective Learning Objectives

SMART Objectives When you are writing course- or module-level objectives or outcomes, remember to always be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.  Specific: The objective should be specific to

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Assessments and Assignments

Learning Objectives vs. Learning Activities

This page was adapted from Weber State’s “Learning Objective vs. Learning Activity” page in their ID Series: Learning Objectives course.  Definitions Learning Activity: An activity or set of activities a

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Instructional Design

Calculating Student Workload

The Federal Credit Hour “An amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not

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Instructional Design

Instructional Design

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Instructional Design

Christina Saintz

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Instructional Design

Randy Shear

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Course Facilitation

Three Course Design Strategies To “Stop the Drop”

As you design your online course, you may closely consider the quality of your resources, the relevance of your assessments, and the level of interaction between your students. However, are

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Instructional Design

Working in Tandem: How Faculty and IDs Create a Quality Online Course

Like riding a bike for the first time, it is best to bring a friend along to support you when developing an online course. The relationship between the faculty member, or Subject Matter Expert (SME), and Instructional Designer (ID) is essential to creating a quality online course.

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Assessments and Assignments

Scaffolding Learning in the Online Classroom

The online student population is becoming increasingly diverse and complex. Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that recent trends show online students are getting younger, however, this trend doesn’t mean

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