Instructional Designer

Ed tech must reads: column #63

Accessibility, AI, ASCILITE, CMM, competences, conference, digital literacy, Digital transformation (Dx), ed tech, ed tech implementation, edtech, education design, Education Support People, Education Technologist, employability, engagement, higher education, Instructional Designer, learning designer, mobile learning, online learning, pedagogy, students, usability, UX by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail 6th Dec 2022 Good morning colleagues, this is a special edition of the ed tech reads column, coming to you “live” from the ASCILITE 2022 conference in beautiful Sydney. […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #49

CMM, ed tech, ePortfolio, Instructional Designer, Learning design, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail on Tuesday 23rd August Online learning is still challenging for students – they need our support from Times Higher Education One thing I’ve always found strange in discussions of […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #45

academic development, AR/VR/XR, CMM, Education Support People, Education Technologist, edvisor, impact, Instructional Designer, learning designer by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 26th July 2022 Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities from International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open Access) For all […]

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Thoughts on: “Many hats, one heart”: A scoping review on the professional identity of learning designers (Altena, Ng, Hinze, Poulsen & Parrish, 2019)

edvisor, Instructional Designer, Learning design, learning designer by Colin Simpson

While I did read this when it first came out at the ASCILITE 2019 conference, I revisit it now that I’ve done my own deep dive into the activities and knowledge areas that help to […]

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Thoughts on: The Organizational Structures of Instructional Design Teams in Higher Education: A Multiple Case Study (Drysdale, 2018) (Thesis)

edvisor, Instructional Designer, organisation, thesis by Colin Simpson

I carried on a bit about how great Uibelhoer’s thesis was recently in covering some much neglected ground and offering some new ways to think about the research I’m doing in my own one. This […]

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Thoughts on: Leading the way: A critical narrative about the creation of an online professional development program (Wilder, 2020)(thesis)

Instructional Designer, narrative research, PhD, readability, thesis by Colin Simpson

I really struggled with this thesis at first because it is written in a very conversational, narrative style. I realised that this was a significant part of the point of the research – the first […]

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Thoughts on: Practicing what they preach: A case study exploring the experiences of Instructional Designers as educators of an online teaching certificate program (Uibelhoer, 2020)(Thesis)

education design, edvisor, Instructional Designer, pedagogy, thesis by Colin Simpson

Of all the theses that I’ve read recently, this one has been the most valuable – for several reasons. Chiefly, it fills a gap in several areas of the literature around edvisors relating to edvisor […]

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Thoughts on: Project Management in Instructional Design (Allen, 2020)

Instructional Designer, quantitative, survey by Colin Simpson

Reading this thesis was valuable because it showed how stark the difference can be between them. Where Amparo took a very qualitative, narrative driven approach to the research going narrow but deep with 3 people […]

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