Let’s talk about ID Project Management

For the last few years, I have taught an ID Project Management course. I normally teach this course during the Summer term, which is a 6-week intensive session (and I mean truly intensive!). However, the rotation of electives in our program now allows me to teach the course during the regular 14-week term. This meant, that I now have room in the course for guest speakers who share their experiences related to project management in instructional design in various settings.

This semester, I was able to record the guest speaker sessions and share them with the students who are not enrolled in the course. These recordings are now uploaded to YouTube. Apologies in advance if YouTube is unavailable in your area due to Internet restrictions.

Guest Speaker: Camille Dickson-Deane, Ph.D., PMP.

Guest Speaker: Adriana McKinnon

Guest Speaker: Kiran Budhrani

Instructional Design Practitioners, Students, and Faculty: Social Media Groups

I am putting together a list of social media groups, specifically Facebook and LinkedIn groups, to share with the students in the UT IDT program. I thought it would be a nice resource that would allow them to be expose to diverse groups of instructional designers in different settings, levels of experience, and locations. I remember when I first started my IDT master program it seemed like there was hardly anyone else who knew what was instructional design. In any case, I know it can feel like just you and your classmates are learning about instructional design. In reality, we have large communities of instructional design practitioners, students, and faculty. This is a work in progress list, I will add more groups as I come across them.

Florida Suncoast Chapter: Association for Talent Development:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1476417/
Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/55502/
- AECT Graduate Student Assembly:
  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aectgsa/
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1225417/
- AECT Teacher Education Division: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AECT.TED/
- AECT Division of Distance Learning: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aectddl/
- AECT Culture, Learning and Technology: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aectclt/
- AECT Division of Organizational Training and Performance: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aect.tandp/
- AECT Design and Development Division:
  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aectdesignanddevelopment/
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1844190/
- AECT Research and Theory Division: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aectrtd
American Educational Research Association:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/105053/
- AERA Division C: Learning & Instruction: https://www.facebook.com/groups/19010695699/
- AERA SIG Instructional Technology: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aerasigit/
- AERA SIG Design and Technology: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3704774/
Other Facebook and LinkedIn Groups:
Social media accounts for 46 different Instructional Design & Technology programs:
- Crowded source Google Spreadsheet

The Instructional Design Interview

Last week, in preparation for a class, I reached out to professional instructional designers (ID) via Facebook and asked them to share good instructional design related questions that they had to answer in an interview in the past. The reason for collecting these questions was to engage my graduate students in an mock interview exercise.

The response from the ID community in Facebook was great. I am still getting notifications of questions that are getting posted. In addition to the questions posted by ID professionals, I also asked the graduate students in both the Intro and Advance IDT Seminar courses to create questions that would be a good fit for an ID-related interview.

Here is the final Google document with all the interview questions, including those: a) crowdsourced from Facebook, b) UT IDT Intro seminar students, and c) UT IDT Advance seminar students: The Instructional Design Interview

If you are interested in becoming part of this ID FB communities, here are the links: