An Alternative Instructional Model: Teaching Medical Translation Online

Faculty Support for Online Teaching: Instructional Design Issues and Beyond

When a faculty member decides to use online technology for teaching, the campus' faculty development center usually becomes one of the sources of support. This presents a great opportunity for the faculty development center to address instructional design issues. However, if faculty members who have done online teaching were the source of support, what issues will they address and what advice w...

Using an Instructional Design Model to Teach Medical Procedures

Educators are often tasked with developing courses and curricula that teach learners how to perform medical procedures. This instruction must provide an optimal, uniform learning experience for all learners. If not well designed, this instruction risks being unstructured, informal, variable amongst learners, or incomplete. This article shows how an instructional design model can help craft cour...

Alternative Instructional Strategies in an IS Curriculum

Systems Analysis and Design is a core component of an education in information systems. To appeal to a wider range of constituents and facilitate the learning process, the content of a traditional Systems Analysis and Design course has been supplemented with an alternative modeling approach. This paper presents an instructional design that incorporates a model from accounting literature (REA) w...

Insects as Educational Tools: An Online Course Teaching the Use of Insects as Instructional Tools

Instructional strategies and course design for teaching statistics online: perspectives from online students

Background: Teaching online is a different experience from that of teaching in a face-to-face setting. Knowledge and skills developed for teaching face-to-face classes are not adequate preparation for teaching online. It is even more challenging to teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses completely online because these courses usually require more hands-on activities and ...