Martha Burtis is a Learning and Teaching Developer at Plymouth State University. She has worked in and around the intersection of higher ed, open pedagogy, and digital technologies for 20+ years.
For many of us, the Covid crisis brought into focus that assumptions underpinning our instructional design, and our ID practices themselves, were failing our teachers, students, and institutions.
Quality Matters, with its 42-point rubric, is one of the most pervasive and insidious examples of a standardized approach to the development of online courses.
On Friday, 12 August 2016, Martha Burtis gave one of two closing keynotes at the
Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. Below
is the text of her talk;
