Allison Rossett

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Why We Need Instructional Design More Than Ever

Allison Rossett

I talked about instructional design today and tomorrow in a presentation at the Learning Technologies conference in London, February, 2013. Instructional design must embrace and inform all the decisions involved in building programs with so many arrows in our quiver. Posted in the Learning Technologies section of Annota.tv:

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Performance Support Goes to the Oscars

Allison Rossett

Mobile was the buzz at the ASTD International Conference in Dallas in May, 2013. Few have the patience to go through courseware on a phone or even a tablet. Screens are small and content is long. Mobile can do so much more. Even though they are keen for it, many learning professionals fail to ask the right questions.

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My first MOOC

Allison Rossett

This is what she had to say: My first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) experience – from late-January to early-March, 2013 – was both positive and negative. That’s why I invited her to tell us what happened when she signed up for a MOOC on the subject of E-learning and Digital Culture.

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Whither higher education? To the opera!

Allison Rossett

billion dollars in funding in 2013, according to CB Insights. Higher education and opera face threats and opportunities in cultures deep with pomp, brilliance, ego, passion, longing, losses, greed, and alliances. Educational technology has a lifeline, perhaps, with its firms attracting 1.25 The interest was even greater in early 2014.

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Cal State Online Plays Small Ball

Allison Rossett

Cal State Online , which took years to conceive, is now scheduled to pilot in the Fall semester, 2012, and then to launch in Spring, 2013. Her letter assures that all participating online programs will be subject to the same approval processes and oversight structures as on-campus programs. Re-thinking the CSU.

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