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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.

Improving the experience for new students

Improving the experience for new students

Starting a new course at university can be both exciting and terrifying for students. But however students feel, they are unlikely to be able to focus on their studies until they feel accepted as part of a new social group. Designing social experiences for new...

Penelope Bellegarde: data, strategy and learning design

Penelope Bellegarde: data, strategy and learning design

  In this episode, my guest is Penelope Bellegarde, founder of The Data Touch consultancy and Data Coaching for Leaders. Penelope’s mission is to bring data into the boardroom using simple, clear language in order to bridge the gap between data and business. Her aim...

Designing metacognition into learning experiences

Designing metacognition into learning experiences

  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...

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