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james_whalley
James Whalley
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Senior Instructional Design Technologist
Joined:
Aug 23, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Posts:
222
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43
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213
Bio:
James Whalley is a senior instructional design technologist in the Center for Teaching Innovation. Prior to joining CTI, James was the director of online education in the International College of the University of Suwon. In that role, he oversaw training, as well as course development and implementation through the Blackboard learning management system. Including his time at USW, James taught in South Korean universities for more than six years, focusing on instruction in ESL and film. James holds a bachelor’s in theater arts with an emphasis in film and a master of business administration from Humboldt State University. He also holds a master of education in instructional design from Western Governors University.

Most Liked Posts

I'd like to echo @mwolfenstein in questioning what's going on here. If Streamline the experience and reduce the cognitive load of modules is too big a lift, why did you even let folks vote for it? And...
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You may also want to check the Idea Conversation precursors, as I remember some of these same ideas that had hundreds of upvotes suddenly only had dozens of 5 stars. It would be nice to recapture all ...
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@marusak Here at Cornell, our big issue was the fact that the move from 1.1 to 1.3 meant manually redoing everything that included Google Apps as an external tool or embed without there being a clear ...
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Is there a way to actually remove these courses from the calendar though? If I have an admin looking at 100 courses a semester, the calendar is going to get crowded quickly.
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I love the idea of the Icon Maker. Upon testing though, I found that it is easy to make an icon that lacks the color contrast necessary to make it accessible. Although the accessibility checker will n...
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Most Recent Posts

Hello @sargonza, Sorry for the slow reply. I was really trying to think through this one. Since you are working to combine Question Banks before transferring them, I am not sure if there is a method t...
May 10, 2024 8:58:52 AM
Hello @DCadaret, That's frustrating that students aren't navigating to assignments as you intended. I can see how that might provide a strange experience. At least you know now and can be sure to comm...
May 10, 2024 8:40:56 AM
Hello @MaureenYoungCSU, I just tested this with Copy Course and it failed. I tried again using Import Course Content and it worked (though, I was only testing assessments and not Pages). The trick for...
May 9, 2024 7:42:36 AM
Hello @MisterSeñor, I love this idea! I imagine this would likely involve a combination of the use of Outcomes and Mastery Paths. Outcomes allow you to measure mastery of specific learning objectives....
May 9, 2024 6:35:55 AM
I am happy to help. I am actually an instructional design technologist at Cornell University and just spend some time in here paying it forward. As for a table of random data with structure, I tried f...
May 9, 2024 6:21:36 AM

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