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Kevin Engler
Instructional Designer, University of Maryland
Kevin Engler is an instructional designer who provides University of Maryland faculty with solutions for designing and developing online graduate courses. He joined UM in 2014 and previously developed training solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the health insurance industry.
Latest from Kevin Engler
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Use a Cloud-based Storyboard to Ensure Course Alignment
A cloud-based storyboard system can enhance collaboration between IDs and SMEs to achieve proper alignment.
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Storyboard System to Ensure Alignment in Graduate Courses
Aligning learning objectives, course materials, activities, and assessments ensures that they reinforce one another for the purpose of learning. Instructional designers (IDs) understand the need for alignment, but this can be an elusive and frustrating task for many SMEs. This article offers a storyboard system that might help your SMEs achieve alignment simply by filling in the blanks.
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Turning MOOC Cons into Pros: Using MOOCs for Recruitment in Higher Education
MOOCs have developed rather negative connotations as a learning delivery platform: high attrition rate, middling rigor, heterogeneous student cohorts with widely varying skill levels and backgrounds, insufficient recognition of learning value, and an unsustainable “free” business model. Using a MOOC as a recruitment tool, not just a content delivery system, flips these MOOC “cons” to “pros.”