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How to Become an Instructional Designer: 13 Experts Give Their 3 Key Tips
Scott Winstead, My eLearning World, 2020/11/09

I'm not going to endorse everything in here - how could I? - but I did find it an engaging read. I appreciated the variety of contributors, many of whom I recognized (and more importantly, many of whom I did not), and the way their contributions were presented, first as quick quotes, then as a longer structured response. Things that came up time and again: staying connected with the community, keeping up with new technology, know the foundational principles, and to keep learning.

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4 Reasons Why Every Course Should Be Designed as an Online Course
Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed, 2020/11/09

Joshua Kim argues that "even if there are no current plans to expand online offerings in, say, a core undergraduate residential program, my recommendation is to still design those face-to-face courses for online delivery. Each and every single one." Why? He offers four reasons. First, the ability to move online support resilience in general. Second, students are looking for the flexibility of in-person and online offerings. Third, designing courses for online delivery increases their quality. And fourth, online delivery often supports extension courses. These are pretty good reasons overall.

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Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service
Leo Kelion, BBC News, 2020/11/09

The weak link in Apple's closed ecosystem is and has always been the World Wide Web. That's why I'm so protective of it; if we lose the web, we will be immediately transported to a world in which Apple (or some other company) gets a percentage of every transaction you conduct online, even if it's something as simple as sending messages back and forth. Now of course a game like Fortnite is much more complex than a simple message, but depending on the platform, it can be offered over the web, instead of as a locked-in application. And while this may undermine Epic's legal case against Apple, it may also put Apple in the untenable position of having to block websites or give up its 30 percent.

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