Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Unlock the secrets to harnessing the power of generative AI in instructional design with our special guest, Jeremy Tuttle, Director of Learning Design at Niche Academy. Jeremy shares his firsthand experiences using tools like ChatGPT and Adobe Illustrator, revealing practical insights on their applications and limitations. Learn why creating effective learning materials still demands significant human intervention for editing and fact-che...
Sep 05, 2024•45 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Stephanie Smith is the Learning and Design Manager for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. located in Westminster Colorado. She has experience in training and development for a variety of industries including energy, safety, software, sales, customer service, medical management industries. Specializing in eLearning, learning architecture, learning platforms, and learning management systems, Stephanie has a proven track...
Jun 05, 2023•36 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Jeremy Tuttle is the Director of Learning Design for Niche Academy where he leads a fantastic team of creative people. He has designed instruction for asynchronous online delivery since 2016 and has been in the education space since 2009. While At Niche Academy he has overseen the creation of over 400 tutorials, and for his previous employer he wrote microcredentials on topics like Criteria and Rubrics and Formative/Summative Assessments....
Mar 18, 2023•44 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: In this episode I interview Autumm Caines and Lance Eaton about ChatGPT and how they see it affecting higher ed and instructional design from a variety of perspectives. This episode is insightful and also humorous at times. Autumm Caines: Autumm Caines is a liminal space. Part technologist, part artist, part manager, part synthesizer she aspires to be mostly educator. You will find Autumm at the place where different disciplines and field...
Feb 05, 2023•50 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Mindsmith is an AI-powered microlearning authoring tool built for the average user. They focus on intuitive interfaces and collaboration that empowers anyone to create beautiful elearning lessons/trainings, whether you are a manager of a small team, a full-time instructional designer, or a busy college professor. Their BookerAI features enable users to overcome writer's block and the intimidation of starting lessons from scratch. Cur...
Jan 02, 2023•26 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Janet Lee ( Janets LinkedIn Profile ) is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. C...
Dec 05, 2022•31 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: In this episode I interview Janet Lee who works in higher education and Darlesa Cahoon who works in the corporate sector. We explore how instructional design is the same and how it is different across the different contexts. Sometimes we think it will be completely different only to discover that it is actually quite alike. This is the first part of a series. Support the show Please consider making a donation to my Patreon account to help...
Oct 30, 2022•17 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Welcome to Demystifying Instructional Design - a podcast where I interview instructional designers about what they do. I'm Rebecca Hogue, your podcast host. For season three I'm going to do a something a little different - I'm going to be interviewing two instructional designers at the same time - from different sectors - to help compare how instructional design is different in one sector versus the other. My first intervie...
Aug 17, 2022•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Yorel L. P. Stephens, MPA, MA. Ed is an Adult Learning and Training consultant with 20+ years ofexperienceserving education, non-profit, and corporate organizations. A graduate of the University of Phoenix, Wilmington College, and Lincoln University she specializes in bringing strategicgoals to life through learning experiences, coaching instructional designers, and transforming complex content into simplistic learning. She excels in pull...
Jul 15, 2022•44 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Robin Sargent PhD, is an entrepreneur, instructional designer, and former professor, recognized as a leader in the instructional design community. She is the owner and founder of IDOL courses , IDOL Talent , and VITAL courses. IDOL courses is the trade school that serves clients through IDOL Talent while developing the next generation of creative learning designers. Business Insider heralds the IDOL courses AcademySM as "one of the b...
Jun 28, 2022•37 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Stan Skrabut is a card carrying lifelong learner who has spent his career helping people and organizations achieve improved performance. He is a scholar, teacher, author, veteran, martial artist, and avid reader. Throughout his working life, he has changed roles and responsibilities countless times. He worked as a guard, organizational trainer, instructional technologist, webmaster, systems programmer, lecturer, and director. He uses info...
Jun 19, 2022•23 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Jean Dengler is a Senior Trainer with Service Corporation International. In her role she delivers a variety of training programs to a diverse group of associates using a virtual platform designed in Adobe Connect. While her primary role is to facilitate training, she considers herself fortunate to have the support of a fantastic team who offers her opportunities to develop learning content, design virtual classrooms and brainstorm innovat...
Jun 07, 2022•20 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Rachael Assignon started her career as a foreign language teacher. She transitioned to corporate learning and development and has experience in automotive, health care, finance, and military. As an instructional designer and facilitator, she finds there is a lot of crossover between teaching and corporate learning. The outcome for both is the same: creating an environment where learners of all ages thrive. Support the show Please consider...
May 30, 2022•25 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Eva is a lifelong trainer, analyst, intermittent project manager and relatively new ID. She found my passion for instructional design later in life, proving to herself its never too late to make a change. She finds that instructional design allows both her tech geek side and creative side room to grow. Her niche has always been in healthcare and systems. She is very fortunate to have had the opportunity grow my career in tandem with the c...
May 10, 2022•23 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Janet Lee is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. Currently, she is a Learning ...
Apr 19, 2022•27 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Janet Lee is an Instructional Designer specializing in practical professional development strategies and content development for professors wishing to transition meaning-full training from face-to-face to online learning. She has a varied background in international K-12/higher education including curriculum development publications, international speaking, media literacy, and micro-learning video production. Currently, she is a Learning ...
Apr 04, 2022•24 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Autumm Caines is an Instructional Designer at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. She has earned an M.A. in Educational Technology from The Ohio State University and B.S. in Communication Technology from Eastern Michigan University and about 15 years of experience working in educational technology and instructional design. Autumms scholarly and research interests include blended/hybrid and online learning, open education, digital liter...
Mar 21, 2022•33 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Emma J. Stodel, PhD, is the Founder and Principal of Learning 4 Excellence. Emma is an educator dedicated to improving performance and facilitating excellence. Her passion is to create meaningful learning experiences that elicit real change in the learner, leading to organizational, professional, and/or personal change. With an academic and professional background in both educational and sport psychology, Emma has a unique skill set she u...
Mar 08, 2022•23 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Gregory Dillon is a Learning Designer at Brown University in Providence, RI where he lives with his border collie iuna. He holds masters degrees in Instructional Design and Portuguese from the University of Massachusetts. Gregorys work is primarily guided by Freirean principles, digital critical pedagogy, and open educational practices. He believes deeply in building community and its benefits to the learning experience. Gregory lived in ...
Feb 26, 2022•19 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Mary Helen Culbertson is the Vice President of People and Culture at iDesign. After working in elementary and higher education, she moved into instructional design before transitioning into Human Resources in 2019. In her position at iDesign, Mary Helen uses her knowledge of instructional design to recruit talented individuals to work with iDesign partners to develop high-quality online course offerings. Support the show Please consider m...
Feb 18, 2022•21 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and ...
Feb 04, 2022•16 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and ...
Jan 27, 2022•16 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and ...
Jan 17, 2022•18 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Rob is an educator, learning experience designer, and documentary filmmaker. He has a rich and varied work history with experiences in health care, higher education, not-for-profit, and small and large private sector organizations. Sparked during his film production studies at York University, a linking theme throughout Robs career has been the role of media and technology as an enabler of learning. During the tech boom of the early 2000s...
Dec 11, 2021•22 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Paula Thorsland holds a BA in English and education, and an MEd in instructional design. She has worked in the education field for 25 years as an instructor and more recently as an senior instructional designer and Manager of the eLearning and Instructional Design Team at UMass Boston. Her focus is to help faculty learn to use technology successfully in their online and face-to-face courses, while ensuring that course objectives are being...
Nov 24, 2021•30 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Darlesa has been an instructional designer and learning technologist for over 15 years with 10 of those working for the Port of Seattle at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. She holds an MA in Instructional Technology from University of Colorado at Denver. She gets excited about imagining and developing online, hybrid, and instructor-led learning experiences which grab attention, encourage reflection, get learners laughing, sharing, an...
Nov 05, 2021•21 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Arthur is a Learning and Development professional who has been in the instructional design field for over 20 years. He started his career training radiologists at mass general hospital in Boston. Arthur earned a masters in education at UMass Boston and returned to his alma mater to earn an MBA. Arthur has led the training operations for several high tech organizations and currently leads a team of technical trainers and writers. Support t...
Oct 20, 2021•26 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Caroline Frankel received her MEd in Instructional Design and graduate certificate in Instructional and Learning Design from UMass Boston in May 2020. She currently works at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts as a Senior Instructional Designer. Caroline has provided leadership to her institution in online learning, as well as remote instruction initiatives following COVID-19. She's worked c...
Oct 12, 2021•26 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Terry Greene is Senior eLearning Designer at Trent University. He holds a B.Ed. in Elementary Education from the University of Alberta and a M.Sc. in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of North Dakota. He is interested in both the cutting and trailing edges of technology in education. Especially those uses that increase the human element in technology-enabled learning. Hint, hint, those are probably the more open on...
Sep 28, 2021•22 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Like the podcast? Leave a message or ask a question here: Karen has over 20 years of experience in the learning field. She led the process of creating a formal online learning program at the Community College of Rhode Island. At Johnson & Wales University, she created training faculty for online course development and delivery and worked closely with faculty developing online courses and managed a team of instructional designers and technologists. She has served as a reviewer for Blackboard&...
Sep 20, 2021•30 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast