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Are new strategies needed for learning design services to have real impact?
There is certainly some distance to travel in terms of learning design having a deep impact in UK higher education, but signs of more diverse and sophisticated approaches suggest strategies also need to follow suit.
Learning Design for an age where old norms are fading away
The challenge of designing effective learning experiences will remain and the changes I’ve outlined are things that institutions should mull over if they want to develop the work of learning design to meet present and future challenges.
How do universities achieve learning design maturity?
For a great many there is quite some way to go from blossoming interest and growing sense of prioritisation to the level of learning design maturity I’ve described in this model.
What’s behind the growth and interest in learning design?
Few would dispute that education is more complex now than it once was, especially due to becoming more entwined with digital technologies. There is a real sense that intentional, deliberate, well-thought out design of educational experiences is needed more than ever before due to the growing complexity that exists and technological developments.
Data and learning: Does more = better?
The promise of data will never be truly realised if there isn’t skill to design the means of gathering relevant and useful information related to the learning process, and the conditions and capabilities of taking that information and doing something with it.
5 tips for programme-level learning design
Too often programmes are not connected, unified pathways but a collection of modules with some loose and unclear relationship to each other.
Is there a skills gap in learning design?
What seems to be apparent are significant deficits when it comes to design and planning or envisaging and blueprinting a teaching and study experience.
5 tips for approaching video in online learning
One of the big problems in online education is that video is chosen almost by default rather than it being a well-considered design choice.
Are learner personas effective in learning design?
If personas are not built on the foundation of solid and significant research then their value is hugely diluted and becomes questionable.
Learning designers: New fad or new future?
An excellent learning designer will be a key role in the future of many education providers, but the challenge of switching to online teaching and learning is organisational change which means that everyone involved has to do their job in a slightly different way.