The heart of our pedagogical approach is the theory of “failure-driven learning,” which says, in a nutshell, that learning happens only when the world does something different Read More →
John Dewey is arguably the greatest philosopher of education the world has seen. Unfortunately, for most of us, his stilted, formal prose causes unpleasant flashbacks Read More →
A recent New York Times Magazine article (“Why Flunking Exams is Actually a Good Thing,” Sep. 4, 2014) describes a fascinating line of research by Read More →
These days, in learning, it’s cool to be gamey. So, not surprisingly, there’s a lot of hype. And a lot of bad educational games. To get past Read More →
To process my grief over the imminent end of the season, I’ve been reflecting on baseball’s lessons for instructional designers. (Stick with me.) Baseball—distinctively among major American Read More →
This is a really interesting documentation of “when customer service goes wrong.” We’ve done a lot of work with call centers (not, I should underline, Read More →
It seems everyone is never totally happy with their development tools. Be they off-the-shelf (e.g., Lectora, Storyline, et al) or custom. Off-the-shelf is expensive and Read More →
This looks very interesting and promising. While positioned as an educational toy for children, it’s relatively easy to imagine applications in a corporate world (e.g., Read More →
You know the drill: open an eLearning course, interact with a screen’s worth of content, and then click Next. But is horizontal navigation really the Read More →
Eric Mazur is a physics professor at Harvard whose energetic, charismatic style has made him a popular teacher for decades. A few years ago, Mazur suddenly renounced his typical Read More →