HCD Meets ID: Part 1 – What is HCD?

Have you ever experienced a really bad teacher? My worst teacher, let’s call him Dr. Smith, was a professor who failed our entire class based on a poorly written exam question. What could possibly compel an instructor to set up an entire class to fail? What happened to him as a child that made him this way?

Now the answer to that last question may be a little out of the scope of this blog, but I think I can shed a little light on what was going on. For Dr. Smith, that class was all about him, not about me. I just…