Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentNarrated explorables: three mental modelsThree mental models for “narrated explorables,” a new learning medium combining video, interactives, and game-like prompts.Oct 27, 20181Oct 27, 20181
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentThe student is the most important subject in our sentencesI want to introduce you to a weird grammatical trick that has really helped us orient ourselves properly when designing for students…Sep 28, 2018Sep 28, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentMastery learning and creative tasksOur most interesting and pressing problems require people to apply their understandings creatively in unfamiliar contexts.Sep 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentLooking sideways at the design squiggleThough everyone seems to draw it slightly differently, the coarse shape of this diagram shows up ubiquitously when designers describe their…Aug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentOur report on online open-ended activitiesEmpowering online learners to think critically and creativelyAug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentSafely showing students how others see their workWe’re exploring a student-driven engine for supporting open-ended problem solving. This is the theme underlying many variations:Aug 28, 2018Aug 28, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentExplanations from alleged masters of shape dissectionWe’d just invited a few thousand students to try our latest experiment in online open-ended response activities — a controlled trial with…Aug 28, 2018Aug 28, 2018
Andy MatuschakinKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentSorting product “baseball cards”: bridging behavioral interviews and prototypesWe’re excited to share a user research method that helped us bridge the gap between wide-ranging behavioral interviews and detailed…Aug 24, 2018Aug 24, 2018