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Center for Teaching and Learning offers January workshops for faculty Published: December 11, 2020 Author: Staff reports
In collaboration with Experiential Learning and the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) within the Office of Instructional Innovation (OII) is hosting three sessions to support instructors with teaching in spring semester.
Each session will consist of a 20 to 30-minute presentation followed by an open discussion forum to ask questions and to allow information sharing among instructors. Each session will begin at 12 p.m. EST, and participants can register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b32b6900d05a445cb2aced7dd999796a.
Summary
In this blog post, I will briefly outline my journey to Instructional Design as well as provide my tips based on the lessons learned.
My journey to become an Instructional Designer is not as clear-cut as some may imagine, but then, again, when polling some of my contacts in my professional network, many instructional designers transitioned into this field with some prior experiences in fields that sometimes have nothing to do with adult learning, or learning and development, or instructional design per se. Many instructional designers do not even have an official Instructional Design degree.
I began my transition into the field of Instructional Design when I started taking some courses from the Instructional Design program in the College of Education at Ohio University in 2013; of course, at the time I was full-time faculty teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to international students. In 2018, I had amassed enough credit hours, so my advisor recommended I complete