by admin_tony | Mar 28, 2023 | facilitation
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...
by admin_tony | Mar 27, 2023 | inclusivity
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...
by admin_tony | Mar 6, 2023 | curriculum, empathy
What are learner personas? Learner personas provide a practical way for us learning designers to focus our empathy. But why do we need to do this? The reason is to help us determine the difficulty level of a learning experience. When we begin a new learning design...
by admin_tony | Feb 13, 2023 | inclusivity
The UK government spends a great deal on supporting dyslexic students in HE – and they almost certainly get value back on that money in the workplace. At the same time, many dyslexic students go unnoticed and struggle without specialist support. We have to get our...
by admin_tony | Jan 23, 2023 | technology
Some two months after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a LinkedIn tech editor asked how I felt about students writing essays with it. Swiftly I replied: ‘There’s a whole industry out there writing essays for students; ChatGPT will do this for them for free.’...
