It took longer than I had hoped, but you can now see most of the Empirical Educator 2019 summit presentations here. (Unfortunately, the videographers didn't capture the last couple of presentations on OpenSimon.) I'll return to these after I finish my series on digital curricular materials design, but in the meantime, the talks are available for your enjoyment. More...

An unbelievable number of words have been written about the technology affordances of courseware—progress indicators, nudges, analytics, adaptive algorithms, and so on. But what seems to have gone completely unnoticed in all this analysis is that the quiet revolution in the design of educational content that makes all of these affordances possible. It is invisible to professional course designers because it is like the air they breathe. They take it for granted, and nobody outside of their domain asks them what they're doing or why. It's invisible to everybody else because nobody talks about it. We are distracted by the technology bells and whistle. But make no mistake: There would be no fancy courseware technology without this change in content design. It is the key to everything. Once you understand it, suddenly the technology possibilities and limitations become much clearer. More...