– From Front and Center, by Bud Burrell –
Since I got out of the Army, I have spent a good part of my career educating non-technical professionals about complex financial products and portfolio strategies. I found many things of interest about the process of doing this effectively, and in particular, it gave me early insights into the value of what I had learned in K through 12, and what this would mean ultimately to online education via computers.
I found early on that my first task had to be to break down the ideas into words that meant something to the audience. Like many technical spaces, the industry adopted the use of professional terms that had to be described meaningfully to potential end users. Indeed, my first great breakthrough occurred when I realized that my industry had lost sight of who the real end client was. [entire post]