Category: Instructional Design

Addressing the Teacher Presence Problem Much research literature attests that social presence correlates with student perception and performance (Richardson & Swan, 2003). Although the results of many surveys assert a lack of teacher presence in distance education courses positively correlates to student performance, analyzing the design of the studies shows a glaring omission. In many…

Resolving the Mystique of the Learning Objective Some instructional designers insist that Learning Objectives drive the design process (Morrison, Ross, Kalman, & Kemp, 2013). Others contend that it is the natural outgrowth of the instructional and enabling analysis and should evolve somewhere in the design process (Hoffman, 2012). Still others see them as the metric…