Alan Pruitt

Curriculum-as-Code & Institutional Strategy Essays

Explore the complete collection of essays documenting digital sovereignty, ADA Title II accessibility refactoring, and deterministic AI safety protocols.

Essay 26
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Essay 26

An analysis of the POUR-Audit framework within Curriculum-as-Code paradigms, highlighting automated verification checks for heading hierarchies, image alt-text, and legacy reference deprecation.

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Essay 24
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Essay 24

Why integrating commercial AI chatbots inside Canvas LMS introduces severe institutional risks, compromises FERPA/ADA standards, and how high-friction Socratic assessments preserve human voice and presence.

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Essay 15

Essay 15: Algorithmic Pedagogy & Continuous Integration β€” Engineering Zero-Regression Learning Environments

When traditional course design meets institutional scaling, it almost always encounters a friction point: version decay. Syllabi drift out of alignment with lab rubrics, external links break, accreditation standards shift, and manual updates introduce silent regressions into LMS course shells.

In software development, this problem was solved decades ago through Continuous Integration (CI) and automated testing. In higher education, the solution is Algorithmic Pedagogyβ€”the practice of treating learning outcomes, prerequisite graphs, and compliance rules as executable source code.

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Essay 18

Essay 18: The Illusion of the Feed: Upstream SSoT and Feed Link Rot Governance

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze the impact of link rot on digital course content.
  • Establish upstream Single Source of Truth (SSoT) configuration control.
  • Design glare-resilient, high-contrast, offline-first course architectures.

Instructional Content

Key Concept: Relying on live external web links and dynamic social media widgets inside an LMS creates an illusion of real-time engagement while introducing a compounding vulnerability of link rot. Upstream Single Source of Truth (SSoT) governance mitigates this risk by externalizing external resources as config-controlled assets in centralized database manifests.

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