UM3D: Instructional Impact Blog
for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Courses
Understanding Your Student’s Cognitive Load October 30, 2020 2:30pm This week, join instructional designer Barrett Schwarz as he describes the leaner theory of cognitive load and how it relates to your online course. Cognitive Load Theory states that because short-term memory is limited, learning experiences should be designed to reduce working memory ‘load’ in order…
Student success is a large part of your course. Your teaching can make all the difference to an online student. (Online) Teaching Your Students Flower Darby, author of Small Teaching Online, writes in her online teaching guide: “Online learning requires high-level executive-function skills that some students may not possess. The lack of social and logistical…
As you probably already know from your own experience as a student and educator, being the instructor of a course comes with great responsibility. Not only are you responsible for ensuring students work toward academic demands but you become students’ primary point of contact for questions, concerns, and comments related to the course itself. Students…
Using Intelligent Agents, Replacement Strings, and Email to promote communication and engagement sustainably Streamlining communication ensures effective and manageable learner interaction no matter how large the enrollment, time of day students are active, or when they complete milestones. It lets you be seemingly present when your students are present. eCourseware tools for engagement Intelligent agents…
Has the transition to online learning left you feeling overwhelmed? Does the proposition of designing and developing an online or hybrid class for spring inspire stress and anxiety? Do you feel overwhelmed with highly structured training aimed at preparing you for all of this? UM3D’s Coffee with an Instructional Designer series may be for you!…