Catholic Instructional Design Articles
Community Building in Online Learning
In my previous article on community building, I discussed a study in the broad application of andragogy that focused on recognizing and fostering moments of community. If these moments are often unforeseen and difficult to discern in real life, then they may be...
Community Building in Key Moments
“On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.”John 14:20 In the Holy Trinity, the central dogma of the Catholic faith, we find three persons in one God. This is because, due to their love, each person dwells entirely within the...
Andragogy: A Word Whose Time Has Come
As I set out to write this article, spellcheck informs me that andragogy is not a real word. I assure you it is. Andragogy is adult learning, as opposed to pedagogy, or child learning. Despite pedagogy’s being used in a more general sense among educators to include...
Quality Matters Standard 1.1 – Instructional Design Review
"Where in the LMS do I find...? In the field of Instructional Design, I get asked all the time how to find things in Moodle, my university's LMS. The people asking me aren't dumb, either. As PhDs and college professors, most of them are among the smartest people in...
Keeping It Personal: Encountering Jesus in an Impersonal Age
“In the first place, it is intended to stress that at the heart of catechesis we find, in essence, a Person, the Person of Jesus of Nazareth, ‘the only Son from the Father...full of grace and truth,’ who suffered and died for us and who now, after rising, is...