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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.
Graham Gibbs and the value of learning by doing
‘Most learners have a wealth of experience to draw on, which, however much lip-service is paid to it, tends to get sadly neglected even in the most carefully designed learning programmes. This is of course particularly true of adult learning programmes of all kinds,...
Why learning should be fun, and how to design for it
Faced with a potentially dreary course on US organisational law, Roberto Corrada set his students to read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. There were complaints, murmurings, a bit of truculence. Then came the project: to create all the policy needed to protect...
Positionality: who are you, and how does it influence your learning design?
Ask around about ‘positionality’ and you may just be told it’s a term connected with research, particularly qualitative research. But stay with me: its relevance for learning designers and educators is increasingly recognised too. Whether you’re learning in a...