A student asked me a question that essentially came down to, “How do I find time for remediation online?” Me being me, I gave her the long answer, and I’m sharing it with you here. First, I hope you know that I really admire teachers such as yourself that are…

Instructional designers with a visual streak often use concept mapping as they decide how to lay out a course. One thing you might think about as you use a concept map is the flow of content and events as experienced by students. There’s a concept common to most forms of…

“Understand” is often used in learning objectives, yet shunned by learning designers and evaluators. The reason we stay away from this verb is that it begs the question of how we can actually observe that they understand. Put another way, “understand” can’t be directly measured. We have to ask learners…

Checklists can feel low-tech and old fashioned. But they work. They work very, very well. They have become so critical that organizations like NASA have spent millions researching them and improving them. The best piece of advice I can give about checklists is to force the user to interact with…

James W. Thomas, PhD Cakewalk is a full-featured music recording program with a wild story . It’s about 30 years old; I’ve been using it since it first came out. Until recently, it was a fairly expensive package. It changed hands a few times, eventually landing as part of the…