Rose Colored Glasses

Random Thoughts on Instructional Design

Friday September 3rd 2010

'I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers…creativity above fact regurgitation…individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance…." Tom Peters

Tools

Visual Graphing Tools

Accessing and Creating »

The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created to allow designers to share content with formatting intact. Unfortunately, [...]

Instructional Technology

Designing Problem Base Cases »

Today I attended a presentation on the development of virtual patients learning units with open source [...]

Creating Learning Communities »

“What we thought was the horizon of our potential turns out to be only the foreground.” Tom [...]

Modifying Bloom’s »

Creating (Evaluation) [...]

About

"But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere — at all ages and in all conditions of life." ~ John William Gardner

This quote prompted me to develop Rose Colored Glasses and the associated "Hitchhikers Guide to Course Development" as resources for educators and course developers. My hope is that others will create additional teaching and learning tools that can be accessed by everyone everywhere.... JoAnn

Shiny Objects

Do You Have A World View? »

How do we re-wire the systems that we have in order to make our world more global? In the following TED talk Ethan Zuckerman, blogger and technologist [Read More]

Distance Education

Adaptive Release in »

Overview Adaptive release allows instructors and course designers to release course [...]

Creating Engagement »

"A free exchange of ideas, opinions, and feelings is the lifeblood of collaborative [...]

Creating Learning »

“What we thought was the horizon of our potential turns out to be only the [...]

Techniques

Have we prepared our students? »

The Environment The following video provides a interesting look in to the progression of technology enabled information sources and the changing media landscape. What impact do you think this will have on the way that we educate? What skillsets will tomorrows [Read More]