Tag Archives: instructional design

un jour se levera…

Beginning of a new term is always busy in my role here at OLT (yeah, you know me). However it’s doubly busy when I act as both instructional designer/project manager and course co-author. This term I’m also the instructor in … Continue reading

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Deposit or delineate

Across the range of courses I’m responsible fo, a range of pedagogical approaches are used, based on the subject, the resources available to the instructor/department, and the norms of the discipline in question. In education courses, as an example, testing … Continue reading

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Swinging both ways

Years ago I dated this really kind of obnoxious fella (film industry; go figure), but he did, for some reason, offer me his old computer even after I dumped him we agreed we weren’t romantically compatible. That machine was a … Continue reading

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plan, man

I have learnt, through trial and error, that instructional design is as much about project planning as it is about knowing about edumacation. Sadly, this is even more true when I am “the team.” A lot of professionals have encountered … Continue reading

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Salût!

I’m here, I’m ready! Hello!  Hello? Testing 1 – 2 – 3… My name is John Egan; I’m an instructional designer and project manager here in the Distance Education unit of the Office of Learning Technology (OLT for short). I … Continue reading

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