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Hill AFB Reflection
The trip to Hill AFB was an excellent view of an instructional design team. They had quite a large team that allowed each person to specialize in their area, although they still had to work together as one unit. It was good to see first hand the use of the ADDIE model. It helped me to see how relevant it can be in the workplace. A visual representation in the workplace helped to cement the concepts we are learning in my memory.
I didn't realize until the trip how many people actually work on the base.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Matthew Bemer on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 8:20am
NROC's value in collaboration
The second session I attended complimented the first quite well. It focused more on the content itself and about how not all open materials are valuable and collaboration can lead to more valuable content. This is specifically what the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) addresses – how to utilize collaboration to make content stronger. Some of the ideas presented for better material included:Click here to read more »
Submitted by Matthew Bemer on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 11:21am
Yale's piloted open courseware
The first session that I attended showed me how much more popular open education is than I had originally thought. The speaker was presenting just from the standpoint of Yale, and here are some of the facts he gave about their piloted open courseware:
- One-half million users
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