Christina Fisher received her B.A. in French Literature from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990, and, after a brief stint teaching French in the NC public school system, her M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Design in 1997 from the same school. She works as an instructional designer in the telecommunications, defense, and storage industries. Christina is currently a Senior Education Product Developer in NetApp University in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

 

Articles by Christina Fisher

Speeding Towards Design … Seven Gotchas

(10/13/08)
The instructional design process is seldom as smooth as the ADDIE flow chart would lead you to believe. Here are seven issues that come up time and time again, and that continue to make the designer’s life difficult. But fear not! There is a way to handle every one of them.

Asynchronous Learning and Adult Motivation: Catching Fog in a Gauze Bag

(3/13/06)
Writers and speakers sometimes express a great deal of angst over the low e-Learning completion rates reported in various studies. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so upset. In an article that may stir up some controversy, a design specialist takes issue with this concern.