Course & Curriculum Development

A cybersecurity course written in 2023 describes a threat landscape that no longer exists. A data visualization course built around last year’s tooling teaches students software they will not encounter in the field. The traditional fix — rebuilding from scratch every few semesters — is slow, expensive, and produces a course that starts aging the day it launches.

The deeper problem is not writing the content. It is that most online courses are authored inside the learning management system, one page at a time, in a rich-text editor. There is no source of truth outside the LMS, so nothing can be diffed, reviewed, or reused. Updating twenty lessons means twenty manual edits, so nobody updates twenty lessons.

I treat this as an engineering problem rather than a writing problem. Instead of authoring courses, I build the system that authors them: every lesson, quiz, rubric, and narration script lives in version control, and an idempotent pipeline publishes them into the LMS. Re-running is always safe, which is what makes continuous currency possible at all.