Ask any instructor what helps students learn, and it's unlikely any of them will answer "a really big wall of text". It's incredible to me, as both a university instructor and a UX designer, that the army of people working at OpenAI are not imagining better tools for our students. I want to walk you through a design pattern in ChatGPT that, despite its good intentions, might be creating unintended hurdles for students.
Republicans and Democrats showed rare agreement in a House committee meeting on Wednesday, putting their support behind digital skills transcripts that they say will make the economy more efficient and make education more skills-centered. "This is a game changer," said Rep. Burgess Owens, the Utah Republican who chairs the subcommittee. The hearing shined a spotlight on the wonky world of learning and employment records, or LERs, and explored how to ensure they are available nationwide.
L&D programs are becoming more complex. Many learning and Instructional Designers manage hybrid, remote, and in-person training sessions all at once. Sending reminders, handling cancellations, and coordinating schedules can quickly become overwhelming. Inefficient scheduling in training programs doesn't just waste time; it also undermines the effectiveness of the program. It can lead to missed sessions, instructor conflicts, and underutilized resources. These issues affect both learners and the success of your programs.
When Abby Fagerlin tried logging into Canvas, a popular educational technology platform, to check on her assignments Monday morning, she couldn't get in. That meant the 19-year-old college sophomore, who is studying physics at Pasadena City College, was unable to access materials she needed for her three classes, which were hosted on or linked through the learning management system. After searching online, she realized the Amazon Web Services outage that crippled much of the internet Monday had also temporarily taken down Canvas.
ArTEMiS is a highly scalable, automated assessment management system, programming language independent, and expects test runners to produce results adhering to the Apache Ant JUnit XML schema.
