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The Ding-O-Meter is our powerful listening device, carefully calibrated to detect the best ideas in creative learning design.
It’s also our podcast, and previous guests include Tom Whitford, Head of Learning Design at Curio, and Constance Steinkuehler, Professor of Informatics at UCI and former Senior Policy Analyst for the Obama White House.
Designing learning for the future of work
When someone has done a lot of research into the future of work, it's worth listening. At the OEB 2023 conference in Berlin, I was fortunate to attend a presentation by Hartwin Mass – a researcher and futurologist who investigates the future of work. In a recent...
Marisa Knowles: Designing learning to fit a company’s culture and values
When you're designing a corporate training experience, it's much more likely to be effective if employees perceive it as coming from within the existing culture of the business. This can be challenging for learning designers, because it means we have to find out...
Enabling metacognition with learning design
Metacognition (at its simplest, thinking about thinking) is gaining some ground in primary and secondary outposts; in higher education and the workplace, you may draw a blank. However, say researchers De Backer et al. (2011:559): ‘It is widely recognised that...