An Embodied, Dialogic Endeavor: Towards a Posthumanizing Approach to Creativity with Dr. Kerry Chappell
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Designing for Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Considerations for Instructional Designers
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Embedding interdisciplinarity into a higher educational curriculum allows students to develop competence in synthesizing and applying knowledge and skills from across multiple disciplines to address problems and find solutions that would not be possible if only a single disciplinary lens is used. This review of the literature focused on reviewing t...
Cognitive Constructivism: Revisiting Jerome Bruner’s Influence on Instructional Design Practices
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Four More Years? A Longitudinal Study of One High School’s 1:1 iPad Implementation
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In the fall of 2012, Mason County High School implemented a 1:1 iPad program which placed the devices into the hands of every teacher and student. Researchers examined data from student and teacher interviews, program maintenance data and instructional change examples to answer the question, “Did it work?” With digital and blended learning design t...
Instructional Heuristics for the Use of Worked Examples to Manage Instructional Designers’ Cognitive Load while Problem-...
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Research focusing on the complexities faced by instructional designers have called for pedagogical strategies to equip instructional designers with the ability to problem solve and make decisions. One of the most widely studied strategies for managing cognitive load is the use of worked examples, which provides an alternative to traditional problem...
Here or There Instruction: Lessons Learned in Implementing Innovative Approaches to Blended Synchronous Learning
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Here or There (HOT) instruction is a blended synchronous approach that enables students from on-campus (“here”) or a remote location (“there”) to participate together in class activities in real time. The purpose of this article is to share three different cases at two universities that illustrate different implementations of HOT instruction, expla...
Educational Professionals’ Decision Making for Professional Growth using a Case of Twitter Adoption
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This paper is a report of an examination of educational professionals’ perspectives on their decision processes to use a Twitter personal learning network (PLN). When investigating each of the participants’ decision-making processes to accept or reject the use of a Twitter PLN, the externally supported individualized learning experience was integra...
Attitudes of Afghan EFL Lecturers Toward Instructional Technology
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The use of technology is an integral component in the learning and teaching of languages in the twenty-first Century. Around the globe, studies have been carried out to investigate the integration of technology in language classrooms. However, there is a lack of empirical research on this subject in Afghanistan. Therefore, the purpose of this study...
Perceptions of Instructors Teaching in Saudi Blended Learning Environments
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There is growing demand for blended learning in Saudi higher education institutions, particularly in emerging universities. However, culture, instructional design, and faculty time may hinder blended learning. This study provides a picture of Saudi faculty members’ perceptions of blended learning at an emerging university in central Saudi Arabia. I...
Correction to: Software Engineering Design Principles Applied to Instructional Design: What can we Learn from our Sister...
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The work was done while Nor Hafizah Adnan was a student at the University of Florida, and published after I graduated from the university.
