Good sites understand that dynamic. Another site our group designed which has worked out well is MIT s Sloan School . We collaborated with a bunch of people there who really understand the Internet, so that helped a lot. It s partitioned for different audiences and well-organized. We also helped them project a sort of MIT-feel, which was important for them.
Good design needs to support whatever metric of learning the educator wants to use.
It s old-fashioned, but I still think assessment and testing are important measurement devices. The design should be able to correlate with how many people going through the content score a passing grade on a test. You need to know what people are actually learning. Brook Manville is Publisher of LiNE Zine and Chief Learning Officer of Saba. LiNE Zine retains the copyright in all of the material on these web pages as a collective work under copyright laws.