Information literacy and the predatory publisher

Pay-for-publication and self-publishing are the same. It is a dangerous proposition for pre-tenure faculty to take part in these venues as neither counts for tenure, and neither should count for tenure. It's been just over a year since I posted about this and new predatory publishers are still soliciting me and trying to get me …

Explaining the PhD

Matthew Might's Big Picture Illustration seems apropos to me right now. However, a pat answer won't make the inquisitive MA student very happy. They want clear-cut, one-size-fits-all advice. It's a shame such advice does not exist. One-size fits all advice does not exist because no one can know all too much about doctorates other than …

Design Research, Design-based research, Design & Development Research and Research on or about Design

I learned the differences among these different research types while I was an Assistant Editor at IJDL. Yesterday, I received an invitation to join the advisory board of the International Journal of Designs for Learning (IJDL). IJDL started in 2010 with the purpose to fill a very specific niche in scholarship in instructional design, Design …

A vision statement

I was recently asked to write a vision statement about how I saw the field of instructional technology and where I feel it is headed. So, I wrote one. I will share it here because it will act as a time capsule on how I saw the field of IDT in 2012.