Archive for September, 2008

How do you get the info or instructions out there

How prominent should instructions or details of what to do be  in an online subject? Alternatively should there be an hierarchy of content links that helps students navigate tothe content they seek. One way of getting around this the wish to have students read what you want them to is to send them emails with the important [...]

The failures of systems and how to design things that do not get in the way

Some recent emails to me about the resetting of passwords on edublogs has got me thinking about  the new online technologies still getting in the way of online learning instead of gradually disappearing as a source of frustration. This idea of  simpler technologies not imposing distracting extra cognitive load on learning - was one of the [...]