Our New Year’s Resolution for the Team (2017 Edition) 🎊
From teaching college courses to creating studies for our churches and book clubs, we’ve always learned something from using our own product.
That’s why we decided to get the whole team involved this year.
🔥 Resolution: By the end of 2017, each team member would use Pathwright to launch a personal course.
Since the path design process is new for some of us, we hosted an in-house workshop on course design to help everyone get started on the right foot.
We host course design workshops with customers around the country several times a year, but this is the first time hosting one with our own team. 🤔🤷
Here’s a quick summary of the workshop:
First, we started by planning together with our two foundational course planning docs: (1) Learner Profiles and (2) the Blueprint.
What did the learner profiles and blueprint help us do?
Learner Profiles are an exercise in empathy. They help a teacher better understand their learners’ point of view, situation, and anything that might interfere with their ability to mentally digest the course material.
The course Blueprint converts the Learner Profiles into something very practical — they help the teacher clarify and prioritize the objectives of a course based on the learners’ needs.
Working on these docs together and asking each other questions helped us to get in the mindset of the educators who use Pathwright every day.
Took a coffee break. ☕
Then, we reconvened to start designing the Path. We took our big ideas and broke them down into followable, manageable courses by outlining our Lessons and Steps.
This whole process reminded us of how great teachers are at converting their expertise and experience into something useful. By putting themselves in their learners’ shoes and creating paths, teachers lead learners one step at a time through material that could be overwhelming without their guidance.
You can follow our course design process (get free downloads of planning docs and free guidance) when you register for How to Design a Path.
