UM3D: Instructional Impact Blog
for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Courses
Delivery Mode: Hybrid Grappling with what type of teaching delivery mode will suit you best? While this is not an exhaustive list of the pros and cons associated with teaching a mixture of on ground and online (hybrid), it does highlight some of the common affordances and challenges. There is no “one size fits all”…
Delivery Mode: Fully Online Grappling with what type of teaching delivery mode will suit you best? While this is not an exhaustive list of the pros and cons associated with teaching fully online, it does highlight some of the common affordances and challenges. There is no “one size fits all” delivery mode. Every option offers…
An interview on Accessibility with Dr. Fair Berg This week, join instructional designer Trish Lange as she talks to Dr. Fair Berg about accessibility. Accessibility is about reducing basic barriers to comprehension resulting in better learning outcomes for all learners. Register now via Zoom for – An Interview on Accessibility with Dr. Fair Berg…
Delivery Mode: Face-to-Face Grappling with what type of teaching delivery mode will suit you best? While this is not an exhaustive list of the pros and cons associated with teaching fully on ground, it does highlight some of the common affordances and challenges. There is no “one size fits all” delivery mode. Every option offers…
Cognitive load is the portion of the memory that remembers and processes new information on short time scales (“short term working memory”). It has very limited capacity. Many studies have shown that anything that adds demands on working memory (“cognitive load”) that is not essential for the desired learning will reduce that learning (Meyer and…