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How to Get into Harvard and M.I.T for Free | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. August 5, 2014. How to Get into Harvard and M.I.T for Free. If you would like to impress your friends, or even better, give your parent’s some bragging rights amongst their peers whose kids are all M.D.s, or federal judges, you too can have some of the prestige afforded to an Ivy Leaguer. Even if your SAT scores were not at the elite strata, or even if you cannot claim a legacy slot from mom or dad (Do those still exist? So what is edX? Article. Sla...
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03 | October | 2014 | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. Daily Archives: October 3, 2014. October 3, 2014. Scheduling and Budgeting Tools for Instructional Designer Project Managers. So what are some PM information tools that will help PMs accurately estimate costs, effort, or activity durations? For me, I am familiar with what is probably the granddaddy of PM automated tools, namely Microsoft Project. One of the free PM tools that caught my attention was LibrePlan. Is a free, for up to five people, cloud bas...
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Just Say No to the Creeps | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. October 10, 2014. Just Say No to the Creeps. I could go on with more examples of how the PgM’s inability to say no created additional problems, but I think you get the gist of the situation and may have experience a similar fate, so I will end here with the following from Michael Greers’ Project Management Minimalist on the necessity of sometimes saying no:. Laureate custom ed.). Baltimore: Laureate Education, Inc. October 13, 2014 at 6:15 am. Hi Ralph,...
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19 | August | 2014 | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. Daily Archives: August 19, 2014. August 19, 2014. Round 4: Distance Learning. Consider the following scenario from our Distance Learning course, EDUC 6135-2: A training manager has been frustrated with the quality of communication among trainees in his face-to-face (f2f) training sessions and wants to try something new. With his supervisor’s permission, the trainer plans to. From Simonson et al. are some best practice considerations that the trainer...
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05 | August | 2014 | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. Daily Archives: August 5, 2014. August 5, 2014. How to Get into Harvard and M.I.T for Free. You too can have the cachet of an Ivy League certificate by simply enrolling in edX. So what is edX? From the edX homepage:. One of the better aspects of edX is that a stated objective of the stewards of this distance learning program is to use feedback from students and instructors to improve the instructional outcomes of the online courses and further understan...
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Round 4: Distance Learning | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. August 19, 2014. Round 4: Distance Learning. Consider the following scenario from our Distance Learning course, EDUC 6135-2: A training manager has been frustrated with the quality of communication among trainees in his face-to-face (f2f) training sessions and wants to try something new. With his supervisor’s permission, the trainer plans to. Based on the above, here is how I would approach this course conversion as an ID in training. From Simonson et a...
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10 | October | 2014 | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. Daily Archives: October 10, 2014. October 10, 2014. Just Say No to the Creeps. I could go on with more examples of how the PgM’s inability to say no created additional problems, but I think you get the gist of the situation and may have experience a similar fate, so I will end here with the following from Michael Greers’ Project Management Minimalist on the necessity of sometimes saying no:. EDUC 6135: Distance Learning. Eric and the Capstone. A place f...
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Coda: Future Perceptions of Distance Education | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. August 25, 2014. Coda: Future Perceptions of Distance Education. How will we perceive distance education in the near term 5-10 years and out later on the horizon? Within 20 year’s time, distance education it may in fact be the dominant educational mode as technological innovations such as wearable technology and learner analytics described in the The Horizon Report move from cutting edge to mainstream (2014). Which translates to the thing speaks for its...
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A Tale of Three Tells | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. September 19, 2014. A Tale of Three Tells. The message (send me the report yesterday) was understandable but I thought it was buried in some extraneous and superfluous verbiage that diluted the message. I feel that the message could have been distilled down to a couple of to the point, yet polite sentences. Jane’s voicemail was for me more effective in communicating her message expressing her need for Mark’s report or the data in the report. The per...
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19 | September | 2014 | R M Wilcox
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Musings from an Instructional Designer in Training. Daily Archives: September 19, 2014. September 19, 2014. A Tale of Three Tells. The message (send me the report yesterday) was understandable but I thought it was buried in some extraneous and superfluous verbiage that diluted the message. I feel that the message could have been distilled down to a couple of to the point, yet polite sentences. Jane’s voicemail was for me more effective in communicating her message expressing her need for Mark’s report or...
