Minimising barriers to learning with technology

Minimising barriers to learning with technology

It’s an obvious statement, but technology can both help and hinder learning. And if we’re not careful, it can create more barriers to learning than it reduces. In this article, we’re going to look at how cognitive load affects learning, and the role...
Facilitating imagination in learning design

Facilitating imagination in learning design

If we can create an experience that enables learners to use their Imagination, they are more likely to achieve the learning outcomes. So when we’re designing a learning experience, it’s very important that learners can imagine the learning goal.  When the...
Focus on what learners do

Focus on what learners do

If we focus on what learners do, we’re more likely to design effective learning experiences.  In 1999, Professor John Biggs published an article that had a significant impact on people’s views about teaching. Biggs invited us to consider that there are three...
3 tips for working with SMEs

3 tips for working with SMEs

 Working with SMEs is an integral part of being a learning designer.  As Learning Designers, our role is not to be the content expert. It’s to ensure the overall learning experience is engaging, inclusive and focused on the learning outcomes. The content knowledge is...
Supporting learners with dyspraxia

Supporting learners with dyspraxia

  We are trying harder than you can imagine,’ says dyspraxic teacher Kerry Pace (2015). She suggests that we – non-dyspraxics – might think about how we feel when we’re exhausted: the things we drop or spill or bump into, the overwhelming magnitude of a huge task...