Practical program development

Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students.

Quotes

We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility.
-Doug Grove

One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students.
-Doug Grove

Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made was we just took our existing structure and placed it on any new program.
-Doug Grove

Education Technology Tools

• Adobe Connect web conferencing software
• Dragon Naturally Speaking for speech-to-text

Recommendations

Bonni:

• Batch processing on the computer. Do “like work” all at one time.

Doug:

• Book: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• Coaching for Leaders Episode 223: Start with Why Featuring Simon Sinek
• Simon Sinek’s TED talk