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Cross posting for @Thomas Dreisinger (This is the group I'd mentioned earlier- they love to...
Cross posting for @Thomas Dreisinger (This is the group I'd mentioned earlier- they love to help out with questions like this one!) Instructional Designer Magicians, What advice would you offer to the Excellent Dr. Dreisinger based on his questions also posted here (https://bit.ly/2W4qhAe) ? "For the summer, I would like…
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Wondering how to create interactive activities for your learners, and use them in Brightspace?...
Wondering how to create interactive activities for your learners, and use them in Brightspace? Here's some free/freemium/paid resources you can access online: * Twine – twines are really simple ‘choose your own adventure’ activities. The HTML and CSS export it creates can be embedded on Brightspace content pages (using our…
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Hey @Instructional Design Best Practices , Accessibility is at the heart of everything we...
Hey @Instructional Design Best Practices , Accessibility is at the heart of everything we do! Please help us ensure that our Brightspace Community is valuable to everyone for anything related to Accessibility. Take this quick 10 minutes, Accessibility Resources: Community survey to give us feedback about our Accessibility…
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Answering Questions in the Virtual Space Consider this part two of some lessons learned from...
Answering Questions in the Virtual Space Consider this part two of some lessons learned from Ivan Wanis Ruiz’s MOOC on Communicating in the Virtual Age that I talked about last week. This time let’s focus on answering questions. As instructional designers, we are often in meetings or presentations where we field questions…
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Storytelling and Release Conditions Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash. Many of the Brightspace...
Storytelling and Release Conditions Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash. Many of the Brightspace tools can be used to tell stories – Intelligent Agents can deliver stories right to your learners’ email inbox, Surveys can be set up for branching scenarios, Discussions can encourage learners to tell their own stories. One…
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Working in this industry, the shift to online learning has become more and more prevalent across...
Working in this industry, the shift to online learning has become more and more prevalent across all fields of education- k-12, higher education, and corporate training. I’ve recently been working with several clients to help them transition their content from the more traditional face-to-face learning into pedagogically…
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I.D.E.A.S Sept Digest Every month, we aim to post an IDEAS digest to share some of the...
I.D.E.A.S Sept Digest Every month, we aim to post an IDEAS digest to share some of the resources, tips, tricks, and tools that our team has come across over the past month. I.D.E.A.S. is an acronym for Instructional Design Educational Activities Summary. Below are some reflections/resources from our team of instructional…
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Hey Community Members! Creating accessible content can be easy and fun! Jump into our brand new...
Hey Community Members! Creating accessible content can be easy and fun! Jump into our brand new Brightspace Learning Center course, Accessible Virtual Presentations to learn best practices for designing and delivering virtual presentations. You’ll love the short video clips that are topic specific so you can easily…
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Are you designing culturally responsive online learning? Culture guides how we process...
Are you designing culturally responsive online learning? Culture guides how we process information. Cultures are divided into two broad categories: * Collectivist (such as Japan and Pakistan) These cultures value family and work group goals over individual needs. * Individualist (such as Canada and the US) These cultures…
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The Structure of Creativity in Online LearningPhoto: Ryan Ancill on unsplash.com Instructional...
The Structure of Creativity in Online Learning Photo: Ryan Ancill on unsplash.com Instructional Design is not considered as creative a domain as music or writing or theatre. Some IDs may think there isn't room for creativity because our domain is structured around education. However, even creative domains have structure.…
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Connect with the Brightspace Community Virtual Fusion Lab Friday July 22nd from 9am-12pm ET to...
Connect with the Brightspace Community Virtual Fusion Lab Friday July 22nd from 9am-12pm ET to catch up with the Community Team and participate in our virtual user experience activities!
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I.D.E.A.S July DigestEvery month, we aim to post an IDEAS digest to share some of the resources,...
I.D.E.A.S July Digest Every month, we aim to post an IDEAS digest to share some of the resources, tips, tricks, and tools that our team has come across over the past month. I.D.E.A.S. is an acronym for Instructional Design Educational Activities Summary. Below are some reflections/resources from our team of instructional…
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Hi Community Members, 📧 You’ve got mail 📧 You are not going to want to miss our BRAND-NEW...
Hi Community Members, 📧 You’ve got mail 📧 You are not going to want to miss our BRAND-NEW Brightspace Community Newsletter 😊 ! Check it out to learn what’s new & exciting within the Brightspace Community over the last few months. We'd love for you to follow the article or provide feedback in the comments. This newsletter…
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Five Resources for Decolonizing Instructional Design Ethnocentrism is a term coined by...
Five Resources for Decolonizing Instructional Design Ethnocentrism is a term coined by anthropologist Franz Boas. As author Gregory Younging describes it, ethnocentrism represents the failure of Canadian publishing to present indigenous cultures in a realistic and insightful manner: “this failure comes from a colonial…
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Celebrating National Indigenous People Day: Instructional Design “Two-Eyed Seeing” June 21 is...
Celebrating National Indigenous People Day: Instructional Design “Two-Eyed Seeing” June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. Let’s consider the Indigenous ways of learning according to the Métis author Michelle Hogue: “Cultural experts such as elders hold knowledge in the traditional stories, in the ceremonies,…
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Pride month and what that means for an instructional designer! As an educator and instructional...
Pride month and what that means for an instructional designer! As an educator and instructional designer, culturally relevant and responsive teaching pedagogy has always been part of the blueprints of anything I plan, design, create or analyze. As an individual that comes from a diverse background, I always aim to follow…
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Making Good with the Brightspace HTML Editor The new Brightspace HTML editor is now more...
Making Good with the Brightspace HTML Editor The new Brightspace HTML editor is now more powerful and dynamic. Here’s a few tips that will help you save time while developing courses and make your workflow more efficient. Create a mockup design and a rough sheet Before creating a page, it’s always better to have a rough…
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Hey Community Members! We’re shining a Customer Spotlight on our BRAND-NEW course within the...
Hey Community Members! We’re shining a Customer Spotlight on our BRAND-NEW course within the Brightspace Learning Center, [Archived Content] Metacognitive Teaching and Learning Strategies with University College Dublin. Metacognition is our own thinking about our thinking. This course focuses on real life examples and…
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I.D.E.A.S March DigestEvery month, we aim to post an I.D.E.A.S digest to share some of the...
I.D.E.A.S March Digest Every month, we aim to post an I.D.E.A.S digest to share some of the resources, tips, tricks, and tools that our team has come across over the past month. I.D.E.A.S. is an acronym for Instructional Design Educational Activities Summary. Below are some reflections/resources from our team of…
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Hey Community Members, We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to check out our...
Hey Community Members, We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to check out our BRAND NEW Supporting Screen Reader Users course, housed in our Accessibility Academy within the Brightspace Learning Center. This free resource is available to all Brightspace clients and offers knowledge and tools to support…
