UBC H5P Symposium
Last week I was virtually attending the UBC H5P Symposium, and it’s the first conferency thing I’ve done in 2022 for sure, and probably since spring 21. Before we began, I discovered UBC has a new H5P hub! It’s still only in its softlaunch phase, but it already has a feel like eCampusOntario’s H5P Studio,…
New H5P Content Type – Information Wall
Earlier today, Oliver Tacke posted a new content type he developed for a special project. You won’t find this type in the H5P content hub, but as Oliver says, As usual, if you want to use the content type and if are allowed to install H5P libraries, you can simply download this demo content via…
How do you present learning objectives to your students?
By the end of this paper, readers should be able to: 1) examine the effectiveness of learning objectives (LOs) on retention of expository text, 2) evaluate a method to present LOs that optimizes learning, and 3) explain why this method is better than simply providing LOs in the form of traditional statements. – Sana, F.,…
Personal Professional Development in Instructional Design
Recently, a colleague of mine mentioned they were starting to build up a bit of a home library of useful books that would help them develop professionally. They asked if there were any books that I would recommend for Instructional Designers. This is not going to be a definitive list of resources, but more just…
August Webinar Wrap Up – ID of Practice Problems in Pressbooks with H5P
This mini-series on H5P and Pressbooks has come to a close. We had our session with Alan and Clint facilitating for BC Campus and I think the audience got a lot out of it. If you’re interested in other posts in this series, they are: H5P and Pressbooks, a Brief Highlight Reel, Which H5P Type is Right…
How long does it take to develop an online course?
This post is sponsored by How Long is a Piece of String industries. Leafing through my RSS feed this morning I encountered a post on Christy Tucker’s blog, How long does it take to develop an online course? | UT Dallas eLearning Team. If you’re familiar with Christy’s blog, you’ll recognize that the question “how long does it…
Hostile Instructional Design
So, the other day on Twitter I saw an article about another Canadian city that was employing sound in public spaces to drive away anyone who might camp there over night. It was specifically targeted at the homeless as you might have guessed. The use of this kind of urban design is pretty disgusting, and…
How Much Should I Assign? Estimating Workload in Asynchronous Classes
This post originally appeared on the University of Saskatchewan DEU | ONLINE TEACHING & EDTECH IDEAS blog at https://sites.usask.ca/edtech/2020/06/25/how-much-should-i-assign-estimating-workload-in-asynchronous-classes/ Over nearly ten years of designing and developing online classes at different Higher Education Institutions in Canada, one question I have found consistently in all contexts is, “how much content should I include in my online…
How many options in branching scenario decisions?
Christy Tucker has been blogging about creating blogging scenarios lately, the most recent of which is How many options in branching scenario decisions? The framing of this post closely relates the number of alternatives presented in basic multiple choice questions to how many decisions are available in branching scenarios. In case you missed this post making…
If you’re not doing open learning design are you really doing open pedagogy?
There have been lots of interesting comments and events I’ve seen on Twitter from the Open Ed Conference. It’s been great that people shared what they saw, discussed, and learned at the conference in a way that I could follow along while I was stuck at home this week. One Tweet that caught my attention…