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Previous Workshops
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Workshop 1
Title: Instructional Media Design for Knowledge Mobilization
Presented by: Jordan Epp in English
Date: September 17, 2024
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Workshop 2
Title: 12 Ways to Use Games in the Classroom
Presented by: Katrin Becker in English
Date: November 19, 2024
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Workshop 3
Title: INNOVA: stimuler l’innovation technopédagogique
Presented by: Hubert Lalonde in French
Date: January 21, 2024
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Workshop 4
Title: INNOVA: stimuler l’innovation technopédagogique
Presented by: Hubert Lalonde in French
Date: January 21, 2025
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Workshop 5
Title: Adhésion aux technologies : Comprendre les facteurs d’acceptation et favoriser l’adoption
Presented by: Alice Fomen in French
Date: May 21, 2025
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In 2023-2024, only Master Classes were offered.
Series 10: Instructional Design and Decolonizing Approaches
This theme aims to explore all the methods and tools needed to support inclusion. It is intended to provide a window on the practices developed by instructional designers to facilitate the integration of EDI (Equity-Diversity-Inclusion) and/or DRA (Decolonization-Reconciliation-Autochtonization) measures. This broad theme can also address, among other things, certain measures stemming from Universal Design for Learning.
Workshop 1(10) – Part I
October 27, 2021
Theme 1 – The Participatory Design of a Propaedeutic for Aboriginal People
Presented by: Isabelle Savard
Theme 2 – The Role of Instructional Designers in Decolonizing Pedagogy
Presented by: Kristine Dreaver-Charles
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Workshop 2(10) – Part II
February 8, 2022
Theme 1 – Universal Design in Higher Education: An Instructional Designer’s Perspective
Presented by: Aigerim Shilibekova
Theme 2 – Exploring Teachers’ Positions and Practices in Genocide Education in the Classroom
Presented by: Sivane Hirsch
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Series 9: Transition to Digital in Emergencies: What Lessons can be Learned?
The crisis situation brought about by Covid-19 caused a shockwave in the world of education. Everyone went into remote mode in a few weeks. It is important to look into this reality and start to better understand its effects for teaching in general and teaching with digital tools in particular. What will be the consequences of this ultra-rapid transition? Can distance education benefit from it or will it be more threatened than ever?
Workshop 1(9) – Part I
October 20, 2020
Theme 1 – How to Develop Skills through e-Learning
Presented by: Marie Walsh
Theme 2 – Bringing the Participatory Process Online : The Experience of Percolab
Presented by: Lori Palano
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Workshop 2(9) – Part II
January 27, 2021
Theme 1 – Pedagogical Design and Development of Training Systems in the Context of a Pandemic
Presented by: Cathia Papi
Theme 2 – Redesign Your In-person Course for Online Delivery: Some Practical Ideas
Presented by: Hannah Brown
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Workshop 3(9) – Part III
May 4, 2021
Theme 1 – From Emergency Delivery to Online Teaching: One Year of Teaching English to Language Learners Online through an ID’s Perspective
Presented by: Anna Bartosik
Theme 2 – The ID/CE Relationship during a Pandemic, or the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox
Presented by: Carolle Roy
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Series 8: Tools, Tool Development and Instructional Design
The development of projects, programs and training requires technological tools but above all learning tools. This year, CAID proposes to explore our toolkits by taking a look at them before, during and after development.
Workshop 1(8) – Part I
October 1, 2019
Theme 1 – Exploring the Ongoing Shift from Instructional Designer to Digital Instructional Designer
Presented by: Olivier Alfieri
Theme 2 – Learner-centered Instructional Design
Presented by: Lesley Lee
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Workshop 2(8) – Part II
February 25, 2020
Theme 1 – The Didactic Function of Instructional Designers in Providing Teacher SupportThe Didactic Function of Instructional Designers in Providing Teacher Support
Presented by: Marie Alexandre
Theme 2 – Screencasting: From Theory to Practice
Presented by: Ken Monroe
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Workshop 3(8) – Part III
April 17, 2020
Theme 1 – And . . . shuffle! A new approach to course design using OER content strategy cards
Presented by: Courtney Trott, John Murray, and Mariam Ahmed.
Theme 2 – Bringing Digital Technology into the 21st Century: Sharing Effective Management Strategies
Presented by: France Gravelle
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Series 7: Instructional Design and Research
Presenters were invited to address the topic of academic research in the field of instructional design from different perspectives. What are researchers working on right now? What is the need for research in instructional design? How can research improve the practice of the designer? Are research findings used in the regular work of instructional designers? Who does research in instructional design? Electronic tools have evolved very quickly, so how can the field of research follow the rapid movement in the field of instructional design?
Workshop 1(7) – Part I
October 17, 2018
Theme 1 – Creation and Assessment of a Serious Game for Developing Reading Skills in French-speaking Elementary Students with Symptoms of Dyslexia
Presented by: Francois Lewis
Theme 2 – Practical Digital Transformation: Stories From the Field
Presented by: Dave Cormier
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Workshop 2(7) – Part II
February 19, 2019
Theme 1 – What is Old is New Again: Patterns in Pedagogy and Educational Technology
Presented by: JR Dingwall
Theme 2 – Improving Instructional Design Practices
Presented by: Isabelle Savard
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Workshop 3(7) – Part III
March 12, 2019
Theme 1 – The Role of Instructional Designers in Higher Education Reform
Presented by: Martha Cleveland-Innes
Theme 2 – What Role Does Learning Research Play in Instructional Design?
Presented by: Béatrice Pudelko
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Series 6: Instructional Design and Creativity
Creativity is considered an essential skill for the 21th century. It can take several forms. How does creativity come into play in the design process? Is being creative essential to the process? How do we make the most of creativity and why? Guided by guest speakers, the #6 Series of workshops will consider this theme through various lenses.
Workshop 1(6) – Part 1
October 31, 2017
Theme 1 – Designing, combining and assessing co-creative problem-solving activities with digital technology
Presented by: Margarida Romero
Theme 2 – On Becoming Creative in ID
Presented by: Richard A. Schwier
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Workshop 2(6) – Part II
December 5, 2017
Theme 1: Courage, Crackpots and Creativity
Presented by: Gail Diane Kopp
Theme 2: Creativity and Instructional Design: Synonyms?
Presented by: Carolle Roy
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Workshop 3(6) – Part III
February 20, 2018
Theme 1: Creativity in the Instructional and Multimedia Design Process: Let’s Be Agile!
Presented by: Olivier Alfieri
Theme 2: Misguided Illusions of Understanding and Getting Creative with Grading
Presented by: Katrin Becker
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Series 5: Instructional design: The past, present and future of a multi-faceted profession.
Instructional design can be performed in a number of ways, depending on the context where it is executed. In this fifth workshop series, we invite you to share on the recent transformation of this professional practice with CAID members, all of them certified instructional designers who will draw from their personal experience to reflect on this topic. The teaching world has changed quite a bit in the last few years. How does that affect the instructional designer’s practice? What are the current trends? What can we look forward to in the future?
Workshop 1(5) – Part 1
October 27, 2016
Theme 1 – The ups and downs of an instructional designer
Presented by: Brigitte Belzile
Theme 2 – The evolution of instructional design: K-12 and post-secondary reflections
Presented by: Sophia Palahicky
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Workshop 2(5) – Part 2
December 13, 2016
Theme 1 – The evolution of my instructional design practice and competencies
Presented by: Robert Lawson
Theme 2 – Let’s talk images!
Presented by: Catherine Bigras-Dunberry
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Workshop 3(5) – Part 3
February 14, 2017
Theme 1 – Design challenges in course production for a partner-institutions network
Presented by: Marcelle Parr et Serge Carrier
Theme 2 – Instructional Designers as Mentors
Presented by: Daphne Crane
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Series 4: Instructional Design
The phases of instructional design (ADDIE) each represent a challenge for the instructional designer. From a phase of their choice, each presenter will present what is the element that represents the greatest challenge in that phase and how ID can be prepare to solve that difficulties.
Workshop 1(4) – Part 1
October 13th, 2015
Theme 1 – Silver, Gold and Bronze: How Much Effort Should You Really Invest in a Project?
Presented by: Saul Carliner
Theme 2 – A process, INDEED! But remember that we are dealing with human beings…
Presented by: Anne Patry
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Workshop 2(4) – Part 2
Februaru 9, 2016
Theme 1 – Skills necessary to advise at any stage
Presented by: Christine Simard
Theme 2 – An agile approach to developing/assembling open educational resources
Presented by: Rory McGreal
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Workshop 3(4) – Part 3
April 12th, 2016
Theme 1 –Flexible and collaborative design practices in rapidly evolving environments
Presented by: Kimia Eslah
Theme 2 – Why Your Course Got Hijacked: Collaborating with Trainers to Deliver Courses As Designed
Presented by: Isabelle Lafontaine
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Series 3: International
The number of instructional designers has grown considerably over the past several years as a result of the more widespread use of technological tools in the field of learning. Although this phenomenon is observable around the world, it assumes particular forms in each country. For its series 3, the CAID invites you on a quick world tour to become acquainted with the practices of instructional designers in various countries.
Workshop 1(3)
May 14, 2014
Theme 1 – Reinventing the educational system of distance teachning universities: the case of the Open University of the Netherlands
Presented by: Rob Koper
Theme 2 – The instructional designer in Spain: portrait of a profession that is emerging, yet in transition
Presented by: Marcelo Fablan Maina
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Workshop 2(3)
Theme 1 – E-learning “gold rush” – a Russian case from instructional design (ID) perspective
Presented by: Maria Pannatier
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Workshop 3(3)
January 21, 2015
Theme 1 – Instructional Design in Turkish Universities: Recent Developments and a Review of Bologna Process
Presented by: Sadi Seferoglu
Theme 2 – Instructional Designers in Mexico: The Northeast Perception of the Profession
Presented by: Irma Azeneth Patine Zuniga
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Series 2: The Instructional Designer and Change
According to Moore et Kearsley (2012), « distance education is both a cause and result of significant changes in our understanding of the very meaning of education irself–as well as of more obvious changes in understanding how it should be organized ». The purpose of the second series of CAID workshops is to explore the relationship between about these methods the work performed by instructional designers and change from various perspectives. Do instructional designers trail behind change or do they initiate it? How does change affect their work?
Workshop 1(2) – The instructional designer, agent of change
May 16, 2013
Theme 1 – Flexible course design for volatile and uncertain learning environments
Presented by: Tony Bates
Theme 2 – What criticisms are made of instructional design methods? How can these methods be improved?
Presented by: Josianne Basque
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Workshop 2(2) – The new clientele
October 13, 2013
Theme 1 – Instructional design and new clienteles: what are the strategies for maximizing success?
Presented by: Thierry Karsenti
Theme 2 – Designing for Inclusivity
Presented by: Wade Kelly
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Workshop 3(2) – The new environments
January 24th, 2014
Theme 1 – Blended Online Learning Design, the polar opposite of MOOCs
Presented by: Thomas Michael Power
Theme 2 – Mobile Learning Strategies: Engaging Students in a BYOD Environment
Presented by: Sidneyeve Matrix
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Series 1: Challenge: IDs’s interface
Designers do much more than just work at a computer screen and use technology and gadgets; they also interact constantly with a host of specialists as they perform their work and achieve their objectives. It’s in this context that the Association’s first series of activities focus on the various types of contact, sometimes frustrating but often stimulating, that designers may have in their day-to-day dealings with the various specialists around them.
Workshop 1 – Working with Content Specialist
June 8, 2012
Theme 1 – Working with a content specialist who is resistant to change
Presented by: Cheryl McLean
Theme 2 – How to “separate the wheat from the chaff” with a content specialist
Presented by: Gilles Chamberland
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Workshop 2 – IDs and Teamwork
October 25, 2012
Theme 1 – Building and Leading Technical Teams in Instructional Design
Presented by: Diane Janes
Theme 2 – Teams working on projects: using collaborative techniques to maximize the expertise of each team member
Presented by: Isabelle Lafontaine
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