Experiencing eLearning

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Teacher to Instructional Designer Interview Questions

Experiencing eLearning

Have you developed any curriculum or lesson plans collaboratively, or have you always developed by yourself? This wasn’t a deal-breaker for us, but being able to talk about how you worked with others to develop lessons is a big plus. Developing lessons for someone else to teach is good too.

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UX, Accessibility, & More: ID Links 5/24/22

Experiencing eLearning

Using Twine for building branching scenario activities – Learning and Teaching: Teach HQ. In the info for educators, it says you can make CYOA lessons that adapt content and grade automatically. She used Sugarcube, which is probably easier than Harlowe because it plays nicer with JS. A guide to getting started in Twine.

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Getting Into Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

The majority of IDs I know didn’t originally set out to enter this field; they started teaching or training or writing technical manuals and found instructional design along the way. Moving from Teaching or Training. Anything you can do to create your own materials as supplements or special lessons will be helpful.

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Adapting Resumes from Teaching to Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

When adapting resumes for instructional design jobs, it’s important to focus on experiences like curriculum creation and collaboration rather than teaching. List writing, lesson planning, and content creation first. Say more about lesson planning and curriculum creation. Revision Step 1: Summarize teaching.

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Teacher to Instructional Designer: Interview Questions

Experiencing eLearning

When I was part of a team interviewing teachers who wanted to switch, we always asked a couple of questions: Have you developed any curriculum or lesson plans collaboratively, or have you always developed by yourself? Developing lessons for someone else to teach is good too. Do you start with your objectives or end with them?

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Revisiting Learning Styles

Experiencing eLearning

As a music teacher, that might mean something like teaching rhythms through multiple channels. If I was teaching music today, I’d do that same kind of lesson, just not because of learning styles. Then we’d practice reading some rhythms with similar patterns, with them looking, chanting, and clapping all together.

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Revisiting Learning Styles

Experiencing eLearning

As a music teacher, that might mean something like teaching rhythms through multiple channels. If I was teaching music today, I’d do that same kind of lesson, just not because of learning styles. Then we’d practice reading some rhythms with similar patterns, with them looking, chanting, and clapping all together.