{"id":285,"date":"2014-08-08T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:32:18","slug":"course-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/course-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Course platforms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #37404e;\">If you teach in any 21st century university you have surely encountered the dreaded &#8220;course platform&#8221;, supposedly a productivity tool for faculty and students. The people who built them have learned nothing from the Apple\/Design Thinking that puts simplicity and ease of use first.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #37404e;\" \/><br style=\"color: #37404e;\" \/><span style=\"color: #37404e;\">Course platforms are horribly overfeatured, with inscrutable, impossible to navigate interfaces that seem designed b<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #37404e;\">y troglodytes trained at Microsoft &#8212; before Microsoft saw the light (kind of)<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, each year the platforms are &#8220;improved&#8221;, which is to say more features are added and the user interfaces revamped, rendering everything you learned last year useless.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to go off whimpering for more help, more hand-holding, more training.. which may be the point of the exercise: lifelong dependency masquerading as lifelong learning.<\/p>\n<p>It makes you feel like Buckley wanting to &#8220;stand athwart history, yelling Stop&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you teach in any 21st century university you have surely encountered the dreaded &#8220;course platform&#8221;, supposedly a productivity tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-ruminations","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}