E-learning/Distance
Educational courses or training delivered electronically, typically over the internet. Also covering distance learning experiences regardless of the medium used.
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The Learner Who Shows Up in Week Four
Every cohort has one. Somebody emails in week four asking if it’s too late to join, or logs in for the first time after three weeks of silence because a building crisis…
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Trying a Post-Digital Lens
Most of the language we use to talk about technology in education assumes a line between the digital and everything else. We talk about technology integration, as if the technology arrives from…
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Surveillance Refusal – Chrome Extension for Canvas
Canvas records a great deal about students that has nothing to do with their schoolwork. It logs when a student last logged in, how long a session lasted, how many times they…
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Homegrown Learning Book (Preview)
Working as a learning designer across the Great Plains, I’ve found that conventional instructional design approaches often wither when they’re transplanted into rural and otherwise unusual contexts. That’s what started Homegrown Learning:…
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Better Notifications in Online Learning and Ed Tech
Most teachers I work with are not asking for a better notification system. They are asking for fewer interruptions, and most have given up on getting them. The LMS pings, the email…
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Collaborative Inquiry: Teaching an Accelerated Undergrad Ed Tech Methods Course Through Podcasting
An accelerated 1-credit ed tech methods course at Dakota State University that used collaborative podcasting and essential questions to compress a 3-credit experience into a flexible, peer-driven asynchronous format for working adults.
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Applying User Research Principles to Improve Online K-12 Professional Development
A UX research project that traced a spike in Canvas help tickets to platform-wide quality issues rather than onboarding, leading to a two-tiered course framework built around two distinct educator personas.
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Life-Centered Design in E-Learning
Power-hungry AI applications are being folded into educational technology, and into the design process itself, faster than most of us can evaluate them. Wherever you land on that, two things are true:…
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Yes, Online Learning Can Be a Grift
I have been watching the rise of “guru” courses with growing unease. You know the type: flashy ads promising to teach you everything from digital marketing to life coaching in a few…
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What Koan Practice Taught Me About E-Learning (and What I’m Still Figuring Out)
As an e-learning consultant and a student of Zen, I spend a lot of my professional life trying to make learning more efficient and a lot of my personal life sitting with…
