Category: Writing
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Should You Avoid “Teaching to the Test?”
I’ve always understood “teaching to the test” to mean a course is designed around a specific test. Obviously, an SAT prep course should be designed around the SAT and developing the skills to be successful with that assessment. So what’s the big deal? The term appears to be used only in cases where a class…
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Alignment in Instructional Design
Alignment is harmony among all the components of a learning unit, including your Learning Objectives (LOs), assessments, activities, and content. You could think of it like all the gears in a machine set up so they work together properly. Who Cares? You do. So do all your learners. If the components of your course, for…
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Free Download from Simple Instructional Design!
Chapter 2 (Learning Objectives) of my upcoming book, Simple Instructional Design, is now available as a free download!
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Simple Instructional Design: Behind the Book
It was early 2022 and we were all enjoying the slow march back to normalcy as COVID-19 lockdown was relaxed. I was leading a small, virtual train-the-trainer session on instructional design basics for a large university. We were halfway through an hour-long session and I was thinking, “This is a waste of everyone’s time. They’re…
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Simple Instructional Design: Why You Need This Book
If you’re an educator of any kind, you need my book! All of you amazing and dedicated K-12 teachers, college faculty and lecturers, corporate trainers, presenters, freelancers… you need my book. If you educate people of any age, in any setting, you need my book. Here’s why: The way you were taught to teach is…
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A Publishing Adventure #2
It’s been a while since I lasted posted about my publishing journey for my book, Simple Instructional Design. None of the agents I contacted were interested, life happened, and it got moved to the back burner. You know how it goes. I’m newly committed to working on my writing projects at least once a week…
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A Publishing Adventure #1
I’m totally NOT hovering over my email, waiting for news from the publishers to which I’ve submitted my book proposal. It drives me crazy when people do that… it’s a waste of energy. “Don’t you have a life!?” I wonder to myself. It’s just like giving your number to a hot somebody and hovering by…
Athena Rayne Anderson 