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Copying, Pasting, and Getting Caught

Posted in Instructional Design, SMEs, tagged , on October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

It’s a common complaint (often exaggerated) about online education that students plagiarize, but my horror stories aren’t about students. My horror stories are about developing online courses. (Note: neither of these stories is from PLS; these happened at a prior job.)
How NOT to Hide Your Tracks When Plagiarizing
I was reviewing a course I inherited from [...]

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Sue Brien – Expert of Many Subjects

Posted in SMEs, tagged on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Even though she’s been teaching for nearly 40 years, Sue Brien has not slowed down one bit! This high energy instructor has been facilitating face-to-face and online courses for PLS since 1988 and regards teaching as a mission not a job. Sue is knowledgeable about many subjects and is certified to teach nearly 20 PLS [...]

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Judy Gehr – Re-designing a Course from Sequential to Global Views

Posted in Instructional Design, SMEs on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Judy Gehr, an educator and teacher for over thirty years,  has been working as a Performance Learning Systems Facilitator for over 10 years.  Judy has 32 years of experience as a classroom teacher for Caroll County Schools in Maryland, and now she currently shares her talents as a middle school math resource teacher working with [...]

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Mindy Lower: Our Classroom Management Expert

Posted in SMEs on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

With 25 years of special education experience, Mindy Lower has spent many hours managing classrooms that others (myself included) might find challenging. That expertise, combined with her experience teaching multiple PLS online courses, made her a terrific Subject Matter Expert for the revision of our Classroom Management course. Mindy made revising this course very easy [...]

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Trust the Experts

Posted in SMEs, tagged , on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last month we highlighted several new courses and course revisions that launched this summer. This month we want to take a look at the expertise involved in re-crafting an existing PLS course. In other words, how do we update and revise a foundational course while keeping the integrity of the course?
When we decided to update Classroom Management, Merging Educational [...]

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Introducing Four SMEs

Posted in Communication, Instructional Design, SMEs, tagged , , , , , on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As an instructional designer for PLS, I have the utmost privilege of working with a wide variety of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). I’d like to introduce you to four of the SMEs I’ve worked with. Each of them are unique, knowledgeable people:

Alex Games
Alison Kenny-Gardhouse
Vanessa Dennen
Carol Ann George

Developing an online course virtually can be an [...]

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A Brief Chat with Karl Kapp

Posted in SMEs, tagged , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Continuing our features on SME’s of our courses, one of our Subject Matter Experts, Karl Kapp, graciously agreed to answer some interview questions to tell us a little bit about himself and his experience developing a PLS course. Karl developed the Educating the Net Generation Online course which is set for release in [...]

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Interview with Patricia McDonald

Posted in Instructional Design, SMEs, tagged , , on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the month of July, we will profile several of our Subject Matter Experts, or SMEs. Our SMEs serve as content experts for the development of our online courses. Each SME works with one of the instructional designers throughout the development process. Since their work is “behind the scenes,” most of the time their contributions [...]

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