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Busting Myths About Moving Online
Dispelling a few myths about moving online and sharing a toolkit and outline for making the change.
Distance Learning Support
Mr. Roger's suggestion to "look for the helpers" is heartening for all of us right now. As fear spreads, so do acts of generosity and courage — we simply have to look for them.
Four Ways to Offer Courses That Quadruple Their Impact
Christian shares how you can use the Cohorts feature to offer your courses in multiple ways simultaneously and take the impact of your courses further.
The Secret to Creative Work
When it comes to creative work, why is it so hard to get down to business? In this blog post, Justin shares what he's learned about productivity in creative work over the last 10 or so years.
Should Teachers Be Experts?
Experts are expected to be teachers (and vice versa). If we confuse these two equally important skills, we dramatically devalue what makes them particularly helpful.
Learner Attention vs Scale at Odds Then, Not Now
How much of their limited attention can teachers give to learners? For a long time, we’ve operated as if only two choices exist. But I think there’s an Option Three.
8 Tips for Growing a Meaningful Email List
Marketing your online courses by email? Here are 8 tips to help you grow a customer base that's responsive and engaged with your emails.
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.
What If You Didn't Have to Pay a Designer?
I’m a graphic designer. That’s why it’s weird for me to say that, when you use Pathwright, you probably won’t have to pay someone like me.
Blocks, Not Pages, Are the Future Of the Web
The web is in an awkward phase right now. We’re transitioning from an era where a website was simply a collection of linked pages to one where even using the term “page” to describe a particular screen is a giant oversimplification.
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...
Announcing Blocks
We're excited to officially announce the biggest new feature we've built to date: Blocks. Blocks gives you the power to design effective, engaging learning content like never before.
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.
Multiply the Power of Your Pathwright Account With Zapier
We sometimes get asked if Pathwright plays friendly with other apps. The answer is a resounding "yes" because of a really cool tool called Zapier...
LMS Forums Are Broken
The moment a lecture turns to asking questions, exploring answers, critiquing, expanding, etc. is usually when the most engaged learning happens.
Words to Teach By
To kick off a new school year, I thought I'd share some of my favorite wisdom from other teachers.
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.
3 Ways to Expand How You Use Pathwright
Part three of our three part Guidance series from Laurie. Integrate your account with other powerful tools...
3 Ways to Market Your Course that You May Be Missing
Part two of our three part Guidance series from Laurie. Make your best course pitch page...
3 Things You Didn't Know Pathwright Could Do
This is part one of a three part series in which Laurie, our Guidance Expert, shares Pathwright’s subtle superpowers and hidden features you might have missed.
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.”
What's On the Roadmap?
There are – and always will be – hundreds of features that we could build but haven't. If you’ve ever wondered about how we prioritize what to build, well…
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.
Why We Design for the Learner First
The primary users of Pathwright are the hundreds of thousands of students completing learning steps every day. None of these users pay us.
The Scary High Cost of “Free” Courses
Free courses are an easy way to attract new sign-ups and help people who don’t have the budget to learn what we teach. Win-win, right? Well, not exactly.
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.
Measuring for Genius or Growth
Last year, after working in the “real world” for three years, I decided to move to England in order to study for a Master’s degree.
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.
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.
