Agile Development Projects

Knowing that I've been talking about how to find a happy medium between a waterfall design method and an agile development method, a colleague of mine passed along a great blog post by Jakob Neilsen this morning. It great to see usability experts discussing agile development processes that can be implemented for a variety of development styles and teams (especially small teams). I agree with Jakob's recognition that changing mindsets is probably the biggest design/development challenge.

Cree School & Flexible Learning

This article was published in the Edmonton Sun; it’s good to see this topic being discussed in a wider venue.

Cree school a lesson: Flexible learning helps keep students in high school

It just reinforces for me the fact that sharing strategies for alternative and flexible learning at many different levels of education could be of particular benefit to rural and aboriginal communities in the future.