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Mark Johnson on Side Projects
Coffee Walks is a new and ongoing interview show from the Pathwright team. Mark Johnson discusses the importance of side projects in his own life and the Pathwright team.
Design the Perfect Learning Experience in 5 Steps
Our five-step recipe for designing learning experiences that help learners build the right habits, overcome boredom, and do these things in relationship with others.
Why Would a Software Company Design Courses?
Learning has always had the same enemy: distraction. And teachers have always had the same task: to fight distraction with good design. That's more true in the brave new world of the internet...
How Point Values Create Dynamic Courses
The story of the three-point shot and what it has to teach us about why point values matter in an online course.
Teach Through Connections and Communities, Not Content
To do a little myth-busting, a course isn’t simply collected information. Teaching is the shape that information takes and the relationship that’s built around it.
How Long Should Your Online Lesson Be? Seinfeld Might Know
Jerry Seinfeld wants to know if you’ll watch his show. Well, that was a big question when developing his internet show "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
Creative Addicts
Running often is not a comfortable choice. Yet almost every day, I find myself hitting the trail for a run even though it’s much easier to do practically anything else.
Why Teachers Should Give Questions, Not Answers
On a given Saturday, with time on my side and a bit of boldness, YouTube will teach me almost any skill. I need to change the oil in my car? 3,660,000 videos are ready at hand to show me how.
How to Reach Your Goal Every Week
Whether you’re wrangling your team to reach a milestone this week or psyching yourself up to launch your course this month, you can ride the primo wave of a supportive process to get there.
Education Should Be Beautiful
I love exploring historic universities. While living in London last year, I had the chance to explore some of Oxford’s colleges and numerous universities in Scotland.
4 Ways to Engage Learners in Your Course Introduction
Like the first page of a novel, your course introduction sets the tone for everything that follows. In a course, the first few steps can give your learners a map of what they’ll learn and the energy to tackle it.
The Shape of Learning
Before you read this, pause and take a look at everything you’ve learned in the past month. …and done? Of course not.
Designing on Purpose
Naturally, we get asked why courses in Pathwright don’t include a sidebar. Fair question. I’ll share two reasons why I think it’s time for course designers to break up with their sidebars.
Why Is Your School’s LMS So Bad?
When I tell people about Pathwright, I often hear a version of “man, my university’s software sucks, we should use yours.”
Content Marketing Is Not Teaching
The idea of “teaching” an online course has been largely distorted to mean packaging up a bunch of videos and documents and then focusing all energy towards selling it
How to Write Discussion Questions
Online courses should be more than just an attractive way to convey information, because learning is more than just relaying facts. It’s about relationships that build frameworks for information.
4 Things David Foster Wallace Taught Me About Teaching
Every so often a person is gifted with both wonderful skill and the skill to teach. David Foster Wallace was such a person.
