tips and tricks for awesome learning design
Andragogy, motivation, and how learning designers add value to businesses
Geraldine Murphy was a learning designer before learning design was invented. After completing her teacher training back in 2009, Geraldine has applied her knowledge of learning and technology in...
Agnese Spona: Exploring the intersection of customer experience, service and learning design
What is service design? How does it relate to learning design, user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) design? And what can service design teach learning designers about great...
Design learning for accountability
Learning anything is an effort. As learning designers, we have to convince learners that it's worth them making the effort to learn. One way of doing this is to design activities that require...
Alice Brazil-Burns: How human-centred storytelling can lead to better experience design
Storytelling may sound like something more suited to children, and human-centred storytelling may make you raise your eyebrows. But it's increasingly recognised as a valuable counterpart to the...
The power of team-based learning
Most people accept the value of group work in learning design. But team-based learning extends the learning power of group work even further. But what is team-based learning (TBL), and how does it...
Are you building a creepy treehouse for your learners?
So what is a 'creepy treehouse' in learning design, and how do you know if you've built one? When Jeremy Hunsinger talked with Ding on our podcast, he used the phrase 'creepy treehouse' to describe...
Cognitive constructivism
In a previous post, we proposed that learning theories are key tools in every learning designer's toolbox. Cognitive constructivism is a great example. There are many different theories that attempt...
Use learners’ prior knowledge to guide learning design
Everybody knows something. In fact, we all know a great deal - even by the time we’re about three years old. Yet a common problem in learning design is assuming that learners have no ‘prior...
Learning theories are design tools
A surgeon has tools, a builder has tools. And learning theories are some of the most powerful tools a learning designer can use to build learning experiences. Different learning designers will...
Tomer Garzberg: AI, blockchain, and why we need more technology translators
What is the point of education in a world of less work? How can educators and their institutions prepare their learners for a future transformed by AI? How do we educate for irreplaceability? And...
Why empathy is the ultimate tool in learning design
1.2 The role of empathy in learning design Empathy often makes people roll their eyes. They think it's all about being warm and fluffy. Not so. In learning design, and in teaching, empathy is about...
Jeremy Hunsinger: how to avoid the creepy treehouse of learning design
What metaphors might best describe some of the side-effects of the pandemic on universities, their staff and their teaching? How can educators and their learners keep up with the increasing...
Should educators have exceptional digital literacies?
To what extent is it an educator's responsibility to be not just technologically literate, but exceptional? This question formed the basis of our first weekly Soap Box debate in the Creative...
Adity Saxena: Intercultural learning design for the Covid era
What has the pandemic taught us about the diverse needs of learners? How should we be designing learning in response to a digital-first higher education environment? In this episode, our guest is...
How to do speed networking on Zoom
Why is speed networking on Zoom useful? One of the biggest things we've lost through the move to online working is the ability to socialise. This is not good for two reasons: a great deal of...
Acrobat Global: helping people communicate more effectively
To what extent are we mindful of how we communicate? How could we communicate better? And what about when we're communicating online? Our guests in this episode are Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn...
Explain your course design to your learners
Why should you take the time to explain your course design? Well, helping your learners understand why they are learning in a certain way can be a powerful tool for engaging learners and overcoming...
Meg Bisineer: insights from a year of teaching remotely
How do you teach animation when you’re stranded on the other side of the world? Meg Bisineer had no choice but to find out after she was stranded in London during the first wave of the pandemic....
