Will Gourley borrows from the world of architecture to name a design trend in education: brutalism. Now this isn't a new trend, as evidenced by his references to worksheets created by the vertical foot on the photpocopier, but anyone taking courses online will immediately make the conceptual leap to digital technology, where brutalism in educational web architecture is the order of the day. "All that I ask," he wreites, "is that you resist the urge to hit the copy button without considering the content you intend to share with students. Will it make them feel insignificant and under-inspired? Then you might have a brutalist worksheet in your hands."
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