Current Affiliations
Presentations
- Pulmonary rehabilitation patient education: An instructional strategy in rescue inhaler training to improve self-efficacy
- Training in Instructional Design Practices: Does It Increase Preservice Teachers’ Ability to Integrate Technology?
- Content Analyses of Asynchronous Discussions in Online and Blended Course Sections: Completing Phase 2 of Our Study
- From Start to Finish: Tips for Completing Your Dissertation
- Instructional Design & Development Alumni: A Valuable Untapped
- Content Analyses of Student Asynchronous Discussions in Online and Blended Sections of a Graduate Course
- Designing an Interactive Student Orientation to Build Social Connectedness
- From Start to Finish: Tips for Completing Your Dissertation
- Exploration of Students’ Social Presence and Discussion Interaction Patterns in Online and Blended Course Sections
- Online Teaching and Research: My Stories and Suggested Strategies
Biography
My status as a retired faculty member has changed to Professor Emeritus. My program is/was Instructional Design and Development (IDD) program at the University of South Alabama (USA) in Mobile, AL. My MA and PhD are in Curricular and Instructional Systems (aka Instructional Design) with related fields of management, I/O psychology, and evaluation from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. My BS degree is in education with course have two sections: F2F and online sections to accommodate international students and US students who enjoy/need to be in a classroom setting. Additionally, I developed two graduate certificate programs: Human Performance Improvement and Instructional Design and Development, which the IDD program continue to offer.
I continue to consult, write, present, and serve on committees for international and national organizations. My publications and presentations focus on online & blended learning, instructional design and strategies. I co-authored a second edition of Web-based learning: Design, implementation, and evaluation (with Rasmussen & Lowenthal) along with various book chapters and journal articles.I am also on the editorial boards of British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) and Open Education Studies (OES) and as a consulting editor for ETRD. As an update on my retirement -- The two doctoral candidates, whom I supervised) have now earned their PhD degrees. I'm teaching only 1--maybe 2-- course per year, which leaves me to focuse more on writing. Cheers, gvds