Notes from the field.
Long-form posts on AI in the classroom, instructional design, and what enterprise L&D and community colleges have to teach each other.
Subscribe via RSSWhat a music-education degree actually transferred to IT leadership (and what it didn't)
The popular version of this career-pivot story is the inspirational one. The honest version is more specific, and more useful.
4 min May 2026What I learned standing up an xAPI lab system for a CC cybersecurity program
Three months in. Cost, infrastructure, schema regrets, and what to start with if you're considering this yourself.
3 min May 2026Why a 1967 thought experiment is still the right tool for AI ethics
A long-form essay drawn from the NSF-funded "Would You Pull the Lever?" workshop. AI ethics doesn't need newer frameworks. It needs older ones, applied better.
4 min Apr 2026The case for teaching cloud through real infrastructure, not labs
Our data center workers learn faster than our lab students. That's not a curriculum problem. It's an exposure problem.
2 min Mar 2026ADDIE is not the enemy. Pretending you're still doing ADDIE is.
A defense of process — and an indictment of process theater. What actually changed when we modernized technical training at VMware.
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