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Analysis and commentary on online learning, digital education and the higher education sector.
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.
Balancing digital and analogue technologies in learning design
When we consider what technologies to use or recommend, too often we can unthinkingly choose digital technologies over other technologies, without a thoughtful process taking place.
What does a growth in MOOC learners mean for universities?
If there is large unmet demand for learning, then someone will seek to meet it — if it’s not universities, then it will be interesting to observe what that will mean for education in the future
Should we rethink our use of time in higher education teaching and learning?
We need to challenge and continually reflect on our conceptions of time in education and make it an integral not a perfunctory part of the design.
Is there an investment mismatch between physical and digital campuses?
To really arrive as institutions of learning in a digital age, the digital campus, not just the physical campus, will need more and better investment.