People, you know, would invite me to talk about what I was doing. People were finding out or sharing about this. I was using a blog where my students from different courses would come to the blog to respond to different essays and depending on their discipline, they were responding in different ways. And I started to share some of the things that I was doing. I was using a lot of technology to keep my sanity, to keep the things moving about and figuring things out. And so over this five or six year period, I ended up teaching over 80 85 sections, and within that about 15 different courses. I think I tapped out nine face to face courses and two online courses in a semester. I was doing the full time adjunct in the late 2000s, so I was teaching. In fact, six months before I became an instructional designer, I probably couldn’t tell you what an instructional designer was. I again, like many other folks in my experience, I fell into it. And that makes me think a lot about the work that we do. No, whenever I get asked that question, I always joke about that because I almost feel like that will never be the instructional designer origin story. I was six years old and I looked up into my dad’s eyes and I said, I want to be an instructional designer when I grow up. I am director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, as well as a part time instructor at North Shore Community College, and southern New Hampshire University, and a doctoral student at UMass Boston.Ĭan you tell us a little bit about what I like to call your origin story? How did you get into instructional design? To start with, can you introduce yourself? I begin the season with a three part series where I interview Lance Eaton about instructional design in a higher ED context. His musings, reflections, and ramblings can be found on his blog: He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on open access, academic piracy, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service-learning. Lance Eaton is the Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College and Southern New Hampshire University, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. I begin the season with a three part series where I interview Lance Eaton about instructional design in a higher ED context: So this season, I’m going to break up my longer interviews into 15 to 20 minute segments and run them as multi-part series. When I looked at my podcast statistics on Apple Podcast, I noticed that people don’t listen beyond the 15 minute mark, which is a shame because the interviews are all very interesting. This season, I’m going to try something a little different. Welcome back to Demystifying Instructional Design podcast, where I interview various instructional designers to figure out what instructional designers do.
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