Using Blogs as a Teaching and Learning Tool. A PowerPoint presentation on my experience in using blogs in a teaching and learning context. Presented to at the GMU Faculty Showcase on April 2, 2004.

Instructional Design Knowledge Base The purpose of the Instructional Design Knowledge Base (IDKB) is threefold: to support faculty teaching courses in Instructional Design; to support students learning Instructional Design; to support practitioners in the field of Instructional Design.

Online Discussions: Protocols and Rubrics This link contains protocols, rubrics, and evaluation criteria for structuring and evaluating online discussions when conducted within the context of a graduate course.

Structuring Online Discussions. A PowerPoint presentation on how to structure and evaluate online discussions. Presented to GSE faculty on October 1, 2001.

Web-Based Course Management Tools: An Encycopedia Entry This is an elaborate definition of WBCMT with descriptions of the leading industry tools.

Overview of Web-Based Instruction PowerPoint Presentation

Web-Based Course Authoring Tools and Online Learning: A Technological and Pedagogical Perspective This is a keynote speech presented at the World Internet and Electronic Cities conference in Kish Island, Iran in May 2001.

Forbes Review on Industry Authoring Tools

Scripting Paradigms of Authoring Tools

An Example of mapping Case-Based Learning to Web Features and Technologies This is an example of mapping the instructional strategy of case-based learning through the use of a Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext (CFH) to Web features and associated technologies. This was a model initially designed for students enrolled in EDIT 797 at George Mason University to facilitate their culminating activity.

Connecting Web Features to Instructional Strategies This is a matrix that links Web features to instructional strategies through identifying associated technologies, constructs and learning strategies.

Mapping Instructional Strategies to Web Features This is a link to a presentation given at University of Maryland University College Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Series. It discusses the process of redesigning instructional strategies for online learning. This process was implemented through a special topics course at George Mason University.

A Web-Based Instructional Design Case Study This is a case study to faciliate the teaching and learning of Instructional Design using a Problem-Based Learning Approach.

Informed Consent The same case study as the one above however the case representation is much more structured and hierarchical in nature.

Learning object systems as constructivist learning environments: Related assumptions, theories, and applications A book chapter by Brenda Bannan-Ritland, Nada Dabbagh, & Kate Murphy to be published in the The Instructional Use of Learning Objects