A learning designer, in the context that I am thinking about the role, most resembles a course project manager. The learning designer works directly in the learning management system (LMS) to develop ...

Last year, I started teaching large online courses for the first time. While teaching online still has a lot of limitations and challenges, I’ve enjoyed approaching it as a design problem, and I’ve ...

Think about it as a way to approach the design of the interactions in a course–a design that gives people more than one way to demonstrate skills. It’s also a means of keeping people engaged and ...

Teaching in a fully online environment can be daunting even for seasoned online instructors when they have to prep a new course. However, with a few simple strategies, the process can be smooth and ...

Blackboard Learn 9.1 translates legacy courses into what it calls Original courses. But even those Original courses receive some noteworthy improvements. First and foremost, they’ll look as good ...