Guest Speakers

Speakers, thank you for your time. All speakers are tentatively scheduled for 5:45 to 6:10 PM, Central (North America) time. If you like, add any relevant links below. Also please send me your skype or AIM name. If you'd like to use another tool, we'll give it a go.

Trey Martindale's contact information:

• website: http://teachable.org
• this course site: IDT 7073
• email: treymartindale at gmail dot com
• skype: martindale46
• AIM: martindale46
• phone number of our classroom: (901) 678-1773. 307-A Ball Hall.
• office phone: (901) 678-3451

Thursday February 16 - Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia.

Social Learning Tools

• Mr. Lamb's blog
• About Brian Lamb, and collected works.

1. What (and why) should an instructional designer/technologist know about social software?
2. What's the best thing about your job in ID/IT? What's the worst thing?
3. What advice do you have for instructional design/technology students?

Thursday February 23 - David Wiley, Utah State University. 6:45 Central Time.

1. Where is instructional technology going?
2. What is the role of openness in innovation?
3. Why are mashups the future?
4. Why should all instructional technologists dedicate themselves to increasing access to educational opportunity for underserved people?

Skype ID: opencontent

• David's blog
• David's recent testimony to the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
• State of open educational resources http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/247
• Wiley course syllabus http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=INST_5280_Syllabus_Spring_2006
• http://www.ajaxian.com/

Thursday March 2 - Rick Van Eck, University of North Dakota.

Authoring Tools as a Means of Integrating ID Principles

Associate Professor, Graduate Director Instructional Design & Technology http://idt.und.edu University of North Dakota Box 7189 Grand Forks, ND 58202 701.777.3574

For more on ROI and Authoring Tools, see

• http://www.astd.org (consider a student chapter on campus and joining this group)
• Miller, B. (1996). EPSS: Expanding the Perspective. Retrieved on February 19, 2003 from the World Wide Web: http://www.pcd-innovations.com/infosite/define.htm.
• Murray, T. (1998). Authoring knowledge-based tutors: Tools for content, instructional strategy,student model, and interface design. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 7, 5-64.
• Gery, G., (1991) Electronic performance support systems. Gery Associates.

TBA - Suresh Susarla, Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab, University of Memphis.

ADL and SCORM

5:45 PM. 307-A Ball Hall