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How to Design for Community Through Online Cohorts
Content has never been enough to help people learn. Sparking curiosity, lighting a motivational fire to pursue it, and supporting people as they put in the hard work is the essential and more difficult part to learning. Human connection is often the way to stoke that learning fire, even more than the most well-produced, premium content. This is why cohort-based courses and community-centered learning are now taking the places of content-forward or video-based learning experiences.
How to Host a Virtual Event on Pathwright
Let's take a look at how you might use Pathwright to host a virtual event. And to enliven our post, I’ll be drawing examples from our friends over at The Makers Summit who recently hosted their 2023 virtual event using Pathwright.
A Fresh Outlook on Teaching Media (and Hosting Conferences)
After hosting the University of Rhode Island's Summer Institute in Digital Literacy in-person for eight years, Renee moved the program online with Pathwright in 2020. She discovered a few unexpected positive side effects . . .
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
