Inclusive Teaching Strategies
What is inclusive teaching and education? Inclusivity in the classroom is a key issue, as students come from a diverse range of backgrounds and bring a variety of learning styles, abilities, and experience…
Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are becoming a vital part of classrooms in the 21th Century. This is a list of open source learning management systems. By open source we mean that source code of…
Definitions of The Addie Model
What is the ADDIE Model? This article attempts to explain the ADDIE model by providing different definitions. Basically, ADDIE is a conceptual framework. ADDIE is the most commonly used instructional design framework and…
Planning for Educational Technology Integration
Why seek out educational technology? We know that technology can enhance the teaching and learning process by providing unique opportunities. However, we also know that adoption of educational technology is a highly complex…
Wikis in Education: How Wikis are Being Used in the Classroom
What are Wikis? And should you use them? A Wiki can be defined as ‘‘a system that allows one or more people to build up a corpus of knowledge in a set of…
Definitions of Instructional Design
What is instructional design? Instructional design can be defined as the creation of instructional materials, modules or lessons. The instructional design process consists of determining the needs of the learners, defining the end…
How To Create & Teach An Online Course
Do you want to build and teach your own online course? This is a high-level summary of the tasks and steps involved in creating and delivering a well-designed online course. Please note that creating…
Definitions of Instructional Technology
What is instructional technology? What is instructional design? Are the term Instructional Technology and Educational Technology considered synonymous? Instructional technology is the branch of education concerned with the scientific study of instructional design and development. The…
Instructional Design
What is Instructional Design The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) defines instructional design as “the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning”…
Definitions of Educational Technology
Educational Technology What is educational technology? There are a variety of definitions of educational technology. What is instructional design and technology? The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT): Educational technology is the study…