By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
“Faculty’s days are so jam-packed,” said Carolyn Stoll, senior instructional designer in the Center for Educational Technology and Instructional Support. “It’s hard for them to carve out time for a workshop unless they know it’s going to help them do something they need to do immediately.” So building off a concept Stoll heard about at a previous meeting of the online consortium, she and her colleagues decided to go digital, but with a twist: creating an online training program, but with the flair of an old-fashioned radio show, like those Stoll — who describes herself as a “pop culture nut” — loves to listen to. “We could have just created little videos and put them all on YouTube, but it was really about giving it a fun hook to hang it on and making it fun,” Stoll said of the show, “Design Time.” Keeping in mind the reality that professors are too busy to set aside hours for a training seminar, Stoll and her colleagues sought to keep the episodes short — no more than 30 minutes, including 15 minutes for Q&A.
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