The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
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By Alan Cooper
This book speaks to the huge gap that exists between the content owners and the programmers that implement and execute that content. The essential message of the book is that the programmers are the inmates... and they are making FAR too many choices about how we present and work with our content.
As a programmer myself I recognize lots of truth in this book. In the end this book isn't about getting you to dislike programmers more, its about helping you see where you may be able to get some control back over your own content. A particularly important notion for future instructional designers who are often going to be asking technologists/programmers to execute our ideas/content
By Alan Cooper
This book speaks to the huge gap that exists between the content owners and the programmers that implement and execute that content. The essential message of the book is that the programmers are the inmates... and they are making FAR too many choices about how we present and work with our content.
As a programmer myself I recognize lots of truth in this book. In the end this book isn't about getting you to dislike programmers more, its about helping you see where you may be able to get some control back over your own content. A particularly important notion for future instructional designers who are often going to be asking technologists/programmers to execute our ideas/content
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Whenever I hear this title I think of the Wilt Chamberlain book:
which I own but have never read, so I can't say whether or not it's related to the same topic or not.
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