• Instructional Design

    What Could’ve Been: #et4Online68425 2015 Presentation Notes

    screenshot of Metamorphosis homepage, a site to help graduate students new to teaching

    Hello to all who are / may / might be thinking of attending session #et4online68425, I’m sorry I couldn’t be there to present in person due to personal reasons.Title of Presentation: When Graduate Students Become Online Instructors: A First-Time Online Instructor’s Teaching Toolbox The proposal can be retrieved at http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/et4online/when-graduate-students-become-online-instructors-first-time-online-instruc The website for our presentation is at: http://rampages.us/gradtoonlineteach/ This presentation started when my colleague and I met a group of students from PSYC 795 Practicum in the Teaching of College Psychology (Fall 2014). The provocation to create a resource arose when…

  • Online Education

    2013 Sloan-C International Conference Notes: Good Work in Online Learning

    I returned a call to a friend after returning from the Sloan Consortium’s International Conference at Orlando, Florida. “How was it? The same old people, right?” she asked. It has often intrigued me as a doctoral student that not everyone is interested in going to conferences, after all, it is part of a researcher’s practice, or so we were told — to disseminate ideas/findings and engage with one’s community of practice. Now that I’ve graduated, I still find it exciting to continue with the practice. But my friend’s comment made…

  • Conference,  Learning,  Online Education

    3 days at Sloan-C ET4Online 2013

    As an instructional systems designer/education researcher, I attended sessions at the Sloan-C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning with the goal to inform my professional development. In some organic fashion, my interests somehow coagulated into three main areas: 1. How do people learn: what’s the latest in educational psychology and how is it applied to online education? 2. How is instructional design and development enhanced by new technologies? 3. Scholarship of online learning and teaching: What interesting research is being done? Using what methods or instruments?Instinctively, I feel that these topics…

  • Uncategorized

    Performance Studies in the Electronic Age

    I came across this conference call for paper through a Twitterer I follow: Internet Research 12.0 – Performance and Participation is the 12th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an international association for students and scholars in any discipline in the field of of Internet studies.  Internet Research 12.0: Performance and Participation will provide a space for interdisciplinary researchers to reflect on, describe, interrogate, challenge, and stake new claims to various performance and participation issues, including: * Creative performances and digital arts * Participatory culture and participatory…