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Designing on the LMS Canvas

August 19, 2016 by Susan Detrie

I had the opportunity to build several professional development courses for K-12 teachers on the Canvas LMS. This is an example of how I worked with content developed by faculty at the University of Colorado (the wonderful Dr. Cheryl Matias and Naomi Nishi) for the eCALLMS project. eCALLMS was a grant-funded project to help provide education for teachers of multilingual students. In developing this course in the learning management system, I built it for busy working teachers who needed optimal […]

Categories: Blog, Ed Tech • Tags: Canvas, Course Design, instructional design, learning management system, usability

Courses Without Facilitators or Instructors

April 15, 2015 by Susan Detrie

Designing a course in a learning management system without a teacher poses a certain challenge. It requires great attention to not only the content, but how people can easily follow content. Having taken a number of courses online without an instructor available as a guide, there are numerous solutions available. But what happens when resources are limited you need to make hundreds of pages of content easy to follow? For this course I decided on a numbered grid and inserting […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: instructional design, interaction design, online learning

Instructional Design and the Global Pizza

August 12, 2014 by Susan Detrie

It can often be challenging to work in a design group and even more so if one of your members is located in South Korea and another member is located in the United Arab Emirates, while you reside in the United States. Yet this is exactly what occurred in a graduate ID class through the instructional systems design department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Our assignment was to design instruction for a procedure, develop a professional design report and create instructional […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: collaboration, diversity, global communication, instruction, instructional design, procedures

Defining Educational Technology with Metaphor

August 8, 2014 by Susan Detrie

People rarely think about the fact that color is one of the things we see every day that is systematic, scientific, messy and evocative of everything from the austerity of pure physics, to the emotional states of people, to the human mind at work. In looking at the field of educational technology and it’s many dimensions, color, and specifically the additive colors of light, provides an interesting metaphor for describing the vibrant, scientific, chaotic and changing nature of the field.. […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: educational technology, human performance improvement, human performance technology, instructional design, instructional systems design, instructional systems technology, instructional technology

Integrating Technology into a F2F Class

March 7, 2014 by Susan Detrie

Integrating Technology with Instruction Generative Topic for the seminar: The Green House We Live In The question is what does it mean to go ‘green’? This unit of curriculum is designed as a seminar for younger or older adults who want to better understand what ‘going green’ means, some ways they can accomplish green living in their lives and how a ‘green house’ connects to a the larger issues of our planet as a home. The ultimate goal of the […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: constructivism, green seminar, instructional design, teaching for understanding, Wiske

SUSAN DETRIE Ed.S.

Instructional Design and Digital Media.

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