InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Oct 27, 2018Narrated explorables: three mental modelsThree mental models for “narrated explorables,” a new learning medium combining video, interactives, and game-like prompts.A response icon1A response icon1
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Sep 28, 2018The 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…
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Sep 25, 2018Mastery learning and creative tasksOur most interesting and pressing problems require people to apply their understandings creatively in unfamiliar contexts.
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Aug 29, 2018Looking 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…
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Aug 29, 2018Our report on online open-ended activitiesEmpowering online learners to think critically and creatively
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Aug 28, 2018Safely 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:
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Aug 28, 2018Explanations 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…
InKhan Academy Early Product DevelopmentbyAndy Matuschak·Aug 24, 2018Sorting 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…