Instructional designers + teaching faculty = powerful partnership
The classroom experience as we know it has changed. With the onset of social distancing and sudden transitions to remote instruction, the faculty workload may be quite overwhelming for some teaching faculty. These days it is not uncommon to hear the comforting proclamation, “We’re in this together”. As employees of higher education systems, we are […]
Does Organizational Structure Matter? Yes, But Not in a Traditional Way.
Last Fall, we wrote about why we thought the emerging organizational structures of online units across our universities and colleges are important to study. Leadership concept with red paper plane leading among white on blue background. Specifically, CORAL Collaborative founders and founding members, a now formalized personal learning network born from OLC Institute for Emerging […]
Where Are We Going, Instructional Designers?
Not long ago, a colleague and I found ourselves in the midst of an organization that was undergoing significant structural changes. As part of this process, we were asked to participate in conversations about what our new team would look like. We quickly found that we lacked perspective about how our colleagues saw themselves and […]
The Evolving Nature of Online Organizational Structures in Higher Education Institutions
Does structure matter? In a word: yes, and it matters A LOT . The structure of, and around an online unit within a college or university matters. It matters so much that everyone we talk to that works in online higher ed is actively thinking through what the right structure is, what it should look […]