In higher education, online programs are chasing QM Certification. What does that mean? Quality Matters is a lot of things: a non-profit, a methodology, a rubric.…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: UI/UX
Learning Management System (LMS) design must address the needs of three (or more) user audiences, including: teachers, students, administrators, and sometimes guardians. Blackboard dominates the…
Blackboard Learn Ultra is not Blackboard, at least not the familiar Blackboard Learning Management System I’ve used for many years. Though the changes might seem…
Dear Apple (and Microsoft), please ship operating systems only when they are finished and a bit polished. Stop shipping half-baked, inconsistent, incomplete operating systems just…
Schools, from K12 to universities, rushed online after March 13, 2020. Sadly, the COVID-19 coronavirus and poor online education pedagogy and design went hand-in-hand thanks…
As the co-editor of Type Matters, along with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, I argue that font designs are semiotic communication. Typefaces accrue meaning through their historical uses…
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
Asked to summarize my research projects… Curiously, beyond the theses and dissertation, all my work is in the economics of media and narrative. I ask…
You look at the screen. You wonder what is wrong. The program or app does what it should do, but for some reason you don’t…
One of the common myths I constantly correct in social media and in online forums is that Comic Sans is somehow the “best” typeface for…