IEEE VR 2021 Production Design
I was recently asked if I have service design experience and I realized that I have more service design…
Author: Heather (page 12)
Measuring Remote Team Productivity or When It All Goes Wrong Part 5 of 5 Keeping work in its place
This is the fifth and final article in a series about keeping work in its place. As a reminder:…
6 Days A Week – Part 4 of 5 Keeping work in its place
This is the fourth article in a series about keeping work in its place. As a reminder: emails are…
I’m going camping! Part 3 of 5 Keeping work in its place
This is the third article in a series about keeping work in its place. As a reminder: emails are…
You replied too quickly! Part 2 of 5 Keeping work in its place
This is the second article in a series about keeping work in its place. I distinctly remember crossing the…
I am the woman who did not check her email…and lived. Part 1 of 5 Keeping Work In Its Place
I remember my first job with a company-assigned email account. I was working as a research librarian. One day,…
Beware the VR Straw Man
Scarecrows at Culmstock by David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Merriam-Webster’s first definition of straw man is…
The Future Of Higher Education
Question: What does oversight of every instructional design (ID) department on the planet give you? Answer: Vision. This vision…
I taught one of Earth’s first courses with the Oculus Quest 2.
Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, Photo by Remy Gieling on Unsplash Here’s how that went. First, I can’t…
Given equal results, instructional designers recommend the least expensive option. Or do they?
To my regret, I recently deleted this sentence from my soon-to-be published book chapter:
Instructional
designers are ethically bound, that if all learning outcomes are equal,
to recommend the least expensive, most environmentally sensitive, and
most socio-culturally aware method.
I was asked to provide references to back up this claim. Hmm…isn’t this considered a tenet of instructional design?
Actually, isn’t this a basic truth about all designers everywhere? Part of the job of a designer is to
A) know all of the options and
B) know the strengths and weaknesses of those options which naturally leads a designer to
C)
present the options to their client, highlighting the designer’s
judgment of BEST choice, even if that best choice is not what the client
is hoping for.