There is a hidden curriculum in every piece of EdTEch, and nowhere is it more insidious than in an LMS! Just like students in a course might not know they're supposed to read a syllabus, or how to study for a college test versus a high school test, or what office hours are . . . faculty might not know they can track student activity completion, or how to set up a competency-based course, or what all those boxes in a Quiz question mean. Even more concerning, at most institutions, all the decisions about default settings, what's Advanced or not, the order of items displaying on a page, the columns that show to students in a Gradebook, what form of feedback for Assignments is transmitted to the Gradebook, the upload size limit, and many many more, are made by experts in the field of . . . technology, not pedagogy. And so, just as the medium is the message, the LMS is the Gogy.
- Teacher: Kennedy Joseph