Nick Amaral

Nick Amaral, USA, Secondary, Educational Technology

Nick Amaral is an Instructional Technology Coach and English Teacher at Shore Regional High School in West Long Branch, New Jersey. His continued effort to implement technology into the classroom has afforded him the opportunity to feature a gamified, self-paced and self-directed, mastery learning classroom.

In addition to teaching, he is responsible for supporting teachers’ understanding, implementation, and use of technology in the classroom, as well as designing ongoing professional development. He continues to differentiate instruction and meet students where they are, and design more engaging learning experiences that meet the whole student.

Ed Tech Foray -currently offline
Innovative ideas, resources, lessons, and articles for implementing educational technology in the classroom.

Theme: edtech, education, technology, gamification, professional development, teacher training, GAFE, instructional design

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Raman K. Attri

Raman K. Attri, USA, Workplace, Performance, Human Resources

Raman K Attri is a corporate business researcher, learning strategist and management consultant specializing in strategies for speed to proficiency. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering, management, and technical training. His primary area of focus is to provide strategic directions to organizations in implementing next-generation competitive training strategies.

He founded “Speed To Proficiency: S2Pro©” research and consulting forum with the mission to transform proven research studies on accelerated proficiency into organizational business practices. Visit Speed To Proficiency: S2Pro© Research to know more about his work. He loves to assimilate wide-range of research studies on the subject of “speed to proficiency” and disseminate the same to organizations and business, who can freely leverage his research findings. Previously, equipped with scientific training methods, he innovated two research-backed complex learning frameworks namely SEAT© (Systems Engineering Approach to Training) and ProBT© (Proficiency Based Training) methodology primarily meant for organizations to accelerate development of complex cognitive skills of their employees systematically at a faster rate.

His mission is to help people develop their personal and professional proficiency at a faster rate. He is highly passionate about learning. He holds Doctorate in business from Southern Cross University, Australia.

Speed To Proficiency: S2Pro© Research - currently offline
Speed To Proficiency: S2Pro© Research, a research and consulting endeavor engaged in transforming findings from proven research studies on learning, training, performance, and expertise into practices to accelerate time-to-proficiency of organizations and professionals.

S2Pro© Research strives to find the answer to ‘speed’ by systematically assimilating, analyzing and synthesizing the proven research studies from a wide range of disciplines. For organizations, S2Pro© Research assimilates rigorously researched strategies and practices to reduce time to proficiency and accelerate the proficiency of workforce at the workplace. For training and learning executives, this blog offers break-through competitive methodologies to develop higher-order problem-solving and troubleshooting skills of the workforce in complex technical areas.

For professionals, this forum provides research-based techniques, called Personal Resonance©, to achieve peak performance and proficiency in a shorter time.

Theme: adult education, competencies, expertise, instructional design, learning, proficiency, training, workplace, speed to proficiency

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Ryan Tracey

Ryan Tracey, Australia, Adult, E-Learning

Ryan Tracey is the E‑Learning Manager at a well‑known financial services organisation in Australia. He is also an Editorial Board Member for eLearn Magazine, a moderator for Lrnchat, and a co-organiser of Third Place in Sydney.

E-Learning Provocateur
Provoking deeper thinking in e-learning.

Theme: e-learning, elearning, instructional design, corporate, workplace, educational technology, pedagogy, learning, education, training, technology, online

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Lia Sant-Geronikolou

Lia Sant-Geronikolou, Greece, Secondary, Further, Adult

Multicultural by descent, multilingual by choice, having a true passion for education and culture, holding a Bachelor's degree in FLT and currently involved in LIL projects, I take a multidisciplinary approach to Instructional Design and Information Literacy always trying to come up with inspirational, engaging, innovating ideas of how to best assist both learners and instructors develop their full potential.

Lia Sant edufolio
Reaching out to fellow educators and learning facilitators, with dedication to the Information Science profession, daily spreading the word on new services, structures and strategies for helping reshape the Teaching Landscape.

My blog is all about Learning Networks, Learning enhancement apps, skills and initiatives, librarianship news and T & D opportunities, information literacy, life long learning, edtech, instructional design – elearning theories and Social Media in the service of education.

Theme: Education 2.0, edtech, 21st century skills, elearning, Library 2.0, instructional design, information literacy, web 2.0 tools, content curation

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Melissa Metzger

Melissa Metzger, USA, Higher, Adult

I'm an Educational Administrator at a major research university with a unique perspective on education. I possess a decade of teaching experience, ten years project and education management, more than seven years eLearning development, ten years in instructional design and curriculum development, and more than seventeen years as a graphic and web designer.

My commitment is to superior learner outcomes, using traditional ISD and technology-enhanced methodologies. My experiences and educational research provide a wealth of topics for my site and my blog.

MelissaMetzger.com - currently offline
Educational design, instruction, development and research topics.

Theme: instructional design, distance learning, education research, eLearning, educational technology

Heidi Beezley

Heidi Beezley, USA, K-14

I have worked in education for ten years. I have taught middle school science, worked in as an educational technology resource teacher for San Diego Unified School District, and now work as an instructional technologist for Georgia Perimeter College. I will always work in the education field because growing people is my passion.

Life Long Curious
This blog explores topics relating to technology integration, pedagogy, an educational reform. Ultimately the goal of this blog is to reflect on and strive for high quality teaching and learning.

Theme: education, reform, elearning, instructional design, learning, technology, pedagogy

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Sumeet Moghe

Sumeet Moghe, India, All Sectors

Sumeet Moghe has 9 years of experience in Training and Development and has a passion for devising and talking about new training methods. Sumeet works with ThoughtWorks Technologies Pvt Ltd, India and heads Training and Education for ThoughtWorks Globally.

In the last couple of years, Sumeet has been particularly interested in observing the synergy between Agile and Learner Centered Training methods, built around the values of Respect, Communication, Feedback, Courage and Simplicity. At ThoughtWorks, he has had the opportunity of seeing these in practice and actually inventing a few practices of his own.

Sumeet is deeply passionate in bringing Agile principles to non-computer science arenas as well and has taken a step by applying these to the fields of Workplace Learning, Enterprise 2.0 and team collaboration.

Free as in Freedom
My blog focuses on post-modern corporate education, ranging on topics from training and facilitation, to instructional design, elearning, enterprise 2.0, social media, collaboration, building high performance teams and presentation skills.

Theme: elearning, instructional design, enterprise 2.0, agile, presentations, social media, social learning

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Spyros Zindros

Spyros Zindros, Greece, Secondary, Language and Humanities

Teacher at Pedinis secondary school. Teacher of Greek Language and Literature, ICT trainer.

logos
Web2.0 for Education and instructional design.

Theme: Web2.0, instructional design, google apps, connectivism, collaboration

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Dawn Poulos

Dawn Poulos, USA, Content Management

Dawn has over 10 years of experience in the high-tech sector both in the US and Europe. At Xyleme, Dawn successfully built the company’s financial services market working with global investment banks such as JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank in the areas of equity research, derivatives, and risk management. She is the author of several white papers and trade articles focusing on the topics of XML integration, as well as storage, search, and business intelligence.

Before Xyleme, Dawn was working in Silicon Valley as Director of Business Development at web content management vendor Wego Systems Inc. which was successfully acquired by Astoria Software. Prior to Wego, Dawn worked in the network mediation / billing space for Narus Inc. where she was responsible for delivering WorldCom as the company’s first Marquee customer, resulting in the company securing $26mn in financing.

Dawn also held strategic positions at SGI and began her career as a financial analyst at Procter & Gamble where she received a company award for excellence within only two years of employment. Dawn Poulos holds an undergraduate degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Dawn of Learning
The Xyleme Insider blog is all about the role of Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies in helping corporate training organizations leverage their valuable content to meet each learner’s moment of need.

It’s full of facts, commentaries, use cases, and yes, lots of opinions from leading subject matter experts about how to best apply the concepts of reusability that have proven so successful in other industries to corporate training.

Theme: single-sourcing, blended learning, learning content management system, content reusability, e-learning, enterprise content management, enterprise learning, informal learning, Instructional Design, instructor-led training, knowledge management, lcms, learning content development, content management system, multi-modal learning, online learning, organizational development, organizational learning, Reusability 2.0, reusable content, reusable learning objects, single-source content development, single-source publishing, training customization, workplace learning, xml content, xml publishing, xml technology

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Melissa A. Venable

Melissa A. Venable, USA, Post Secondary, Adult, Online Education

I am an instructional designer and project manager with experience in higher education (public and for profit) and industry. My background also includes working in higher education student services as a career counselor, academic advisor, and instructor for first-year students.

I received my doctorate in 2007, in curriculum and instruction - instructional technology, focusing on the online delivery of career services. I also hold graduate degrees in instructional psychology and administration.

Design Doc
This blog focuses on my perspective of online learning and online courses as a designer and developer.

Theme: online education, instructional design, instructional technology, learning, course development, systems approach, faculty support, open education resources, copyright, fair use

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Joe Deegan

Joe Deegan, USA, Instructional Design

Instructional Systems Designer impacting business results through innovative training solutions.

Blender - Training Solutions
Blending up a mix of eLearning, Instructor Led Training, Job Aids, and Performance Support to create the ideal training solution.

Corporate Instructional Designer and Educational Technology Grad Student.

Theme: elearning, instructional design, instructional systems design, moodle, captivate, job aids, performance support, training, corporate training, educational technology

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Rupa Rajagopalan

Rupa Rajagopalan, India, Instructional Designing

I am a post graduate in English Literature. I have been working for more than 4 years now. My primary focus has been Instructional Designing and Game Based Learning. I have been into Technical Writing for about 3 years now.

I am passionate about Instructional Designing and writing in general. I created my blog to share whatever I know about Instructional Design with all budding writers and professionals.

The Writers Gateway
This blog is about Instructional Designing, Gaming and Game Based Learning. The information in this blog would be useful for anyone who wants to get started with Instructional Designing. All the posts in this blog are at beginner level.

Theme: instructional designing, elearning, gaming, game based learning

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Sanjaya Mishra

Sanjaya Mishra, India, Tertiary, ICT in Education

Sanjaya Mishra holds a PhD in Library and Information Science in the area of library networks. He has been a teacher of communication technology to distance educators and involved in successful implementation of many multimedia and Internet based courses.

With professional training in distance education, television production and multimedia, he is actively involved in collaboration at international level. At present, he is Associate Professor of Distance Education at the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

TeachKnowLogist
This is a personal Blog of Dr. Sanjaya Mishra to reflect, share and discuss developments related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education, Open and Distance Learning, and Training Technologies, in general and India in particular.

Theme: ICT, education, learning, instructional design, training, distance educaiton, distance learning, open learning, media

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Ellen Wagner

Ellen Wagner, California, USA, Tertiary, Adult, Learning, Instructional Design, Multimedia

Ellen Wagner is Partner and Principal Analyst for Sage Road Solutions LLC. She is responsible for learning industry intelligence and enablement solutions.

Ellen is the former senior director of worldwide eLearning, Adobe Systems, Inc. and was senior director of worldwide education solutions for Macromedia, Inc. Prior to working in software solutions marketing and product development, Ellen was Chief learning officer and director of education for Viviance new education, AG. She was chief learning officer and VP of consulting services for Informania, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Viviance.

Before joining the private sector, Ellen was a tenured professor and chair of the educational technology program at the University of Northern Colorado, and held a number of administrative posts, including Director of the Western Institute for Distance Education and Coordinator of Campus Instructional and Research Technologies, Academic Affairs. She was Visiting Scholar and Project Director with the WCET, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

eLearning Roadtrip
eLearning Roadtrip explores issues related to sustaining innovation and accelerating mainstream adoption of learning technology solutions.

Theme: instructional design, e-learning, learning, adoption, innovation, trends, software

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Matt Crosslin

Matt Crosslin, USA, All Sectors

Matt Crosslin is an instructional designer at The University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Distance Education. Matt has been online since 1991 and involved in education since 1994.

In 2000, Matt created his first web page, which was used to deliver supplemental materials to an 8th grade science class. Matt has been involved in distance education in some way ever since then, including being an avid Moodle supporter and developer.

EduGeek Journal
EduGeek Journal is a proud sponsor of your future. Our goal is to promote educational technology by helping educators stay one step ahead of Joneses. We like to pour over new ideas and dream about what could possibly happen in the future in the world of education.

Theme: educational technology, instructional design, ed tech, technology, instructional technology, web 2.0, virtual worlds, emerging technology

Alfredo Calderon-Serrano

Alfredo Calderon-Serrano, Secondary, Higher, Puerto Rico, Education

Consultor en aprendizaje a distancia y la incorporación de la tecnología en ambientes educativos. He realizado proyectos de diseño instruccional para varias instituciones de educación superior.

Poseo una maestría en Sistemas de Instrucción y Tecnología Educativa de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Además una maestría en Currículo y Enseñanza de la Pontifica Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico.

Tengo estudios subgraduados y graduados en Química de la Universidad de Puerto - Mayaguez. Certificado como Diseñador Instruccional y Adiestrador en el manejo de Blackboard.

Aprendizaje a Distancia
En este espacio espero leer sus reacciones a las ideas o reflexiones que vaya plasmando sobre conceptos de aprendizaje a distancia y sus diferentes modalidades. Además de que espero escuchar de ustedes, los que tienen experiencias interactuando con algunas de las estrategias que estaré comentando.

Procuraré recoger información sobre eventos, recursos y lugares en el Web que puedan ser de utilidad.

Theme: distance learning, instructional design

Geoff Cain

Geoff Cain, USA, Post Secondary, College, Education

I am an instructional designer and occasional community college English teacher and I am now the director of instructional design at College of the Redwoods.

I have taught developmental English, composition and literature. I also have taught health information management focusing on information management in the web 2.0 world. I have presented on the connected classroom, concept maps, podcasting, new media, social networking, and other related topics.

Brainstorm in Progress
Geoff Cain's blog for exploring pedagogy, instructional design, technology, online learning, web 2.0, and MUVEs.

At the heart of my teaching philosophy is my absolute belief in my student’s ability to learn. It is my goal as an instructor to create an environment and classroom community that facilitates those abilities.

Different students from different backgrounds, cultures, and abilities all have their have a contribution to make to this learning community. Both as a teacher and an instructional designer, it is important to create learning experiences that enables everyone’s ability to participate.

Theme: education, elearning, connectivism, constructivism, cognitivism, semantic web, second life, elearning, online learning, new media, social networking, web2.0, distance learning, OER, opensource, digital literacy, instructional design, concept mapping, concept maps, mindmaping, mindmaps, collaboration, cognitive science, GTD, writing, meditation, buddhism, psychology, cognitive science, web3.0, virtual worlds, MUVES, collaborative learning, pedagogy, secondlife

Xiuli Zhuang

Xiuli Zhuang, China, University, Educational Technology

Teacher, Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, Instructional Design, Social Learn, PKM, ('Normal' means 'Teacher education' here.)

xiuli'blog - currently offline
Focusing on social learn technology.

Co-founder of SocialLearnLab

Theme: social learn, KM, web2.0, education technology, instructional design

Derek Baird

Derek Baird, USA, Instructional Design, Ed Tech, mLearning, Youth Media

Derek E. Baird, M.A. is a media technologist, speaker, and author specializing in web strategy, mobile learning, Gen Y, educational technology/media, and online communities. He has designed and developed online education communities for U.S. and international clients in both the corporate, education and non-profit sectors.

While working at Yahoo!, he co-designed Yahoo! For Teachers, a social network for educators, and led a series of educational technology workshops across the country.

He also is a contributor to Didactics World, an educational media publication focused on educational technology and mobile learning trends in the Middle East and India.

Barking Robot
Musings on Gen Y, Educational Technology, Kid Media & Mobile Tech.

Theme: ed tech, gen y, mobile, digital pedagogy, mlearning

Instructional Designer Jobs

Instructional Designer Jobs, USA, Adult, Careers

Instructional Designer Jobs features new instructional design jobs daily.

Instructional Designer Jobs - currently offline
Created by an Instructional Designer for Instructional Designers.

Theme: instructional design, jobs, career, instructional technology, eLearning, distance education, job search