My father likes to say, “Never ascribe to malice that which simple stupidity can explain.” I read this as a story of good intentions with horrific execution.
Curricular-Materials
This category includes digital curricular materials, including adaptive learning, assessments, OER, etc., as well as the vendors who sell them.
Cengage Author Moves to OER: The Implications
The arc of curricular materials is long, but it bends toward entropy.
New Argos Post on Optimizing for Educator Effectiveness
The phrase “empowering educators” is a cliché that usually doesn’t mean much. We could use the language of business—as I have—to describe educators as knowledge workers and think about optimizing their workflows to reduce the amount of time they spend on low-value tasks and increase their opportunities to apply their expert judgment to high-value tasks. […]
New Post About the Blended Future of College on the Argos Blog
How can we create engaging, meaningful educational experiences that will bring students back to college?
Argos: Making Good Course Design Easy and Fun
How courseware could work with real product/market fit in mind.
Chegg vs. Pearson: Are back-of-chapter answers intellectual property?
A copyright lawsuit raises the question of the embodied value of textbooks.
Argos: Upcycling Course Design
The reason that courseware has disappointed as a product category is that we failed to understand the product/market fit of the paper textbook.