"Those rubrics and rules are typically advanced, for very good reasons, by passionate instructional designers (speaking from experience since I was one for seven years) and other support professionals. I am not against either of those things, or the experts behind them, as they're often truly committed to online student success. What I am saying: A hyper focus on course mechanics has caused faculty members to equate online teaching with hoop-jumping. That's not joy-filled teaching. That's not meaningful interactions with real people who need our support to get them over the finish line. That's just plodding through one online class after another."

Dude has absolutely no interest in or sympathy for higher ed, but the rest of the essay is super interesting.

I like the principles, and especially like the updated Bloom's Taxonomy