As a field, learning design is constantly developing. In my practice, I have noticed three key themes that are influencing the wider context in learning design, and, indeed, higher education as a whole. They are the balance between theory and practice, the shift to online and blended learning, and the need to be close to…
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CMALT: Exploring learning, teaching and assessment
Understanding of teaching, learning and/ or assessment processes In 2020-2021, I am developing a new course: the Graduate Certificate of Learning Design at UTS, which is made up of eight subjects. I have adopted a whole of course approach to this, thinking holistically about the course, rather than each subject individually. This approach was inspired…
CMALT: Visitor-Resident Diagram
CMALT: Exploring Operational Issues
An understanding of the constraints and benefits of different technologies. Over the last five years, I have worked as a learning designer assisting academics to make effective use of learning management systems, such as Google Classroom (see Heggart & Yoo, 2018; Yoo & Heggart, 2019), Blackboard and Canvas. The largest project that I worked on…
CMALT: Contextual Statement
Background After graduating with my teaching degree, I wanted to travel. From Sydney, I journeyed to Chafford Hundred Campus (now Harris Academy) in Thurrock, England, where I started working as a teacher. It was here that my passion for effective use of technology to assist in learning and teaching was first ignited: CHC was one…
Reflections on Week One
So, the first few sessions of my new graduate certificate have been delivered and I think that it’s a good time to engage in a bit of reflection about what went well, and what did not. Overall, I’m reasonably pleased, but there are things that I would like to take into account and change in…
New ways of teaching and learning
I’ve been tasked, twice, over the last couple of weeks with re-envisioning new ways of working. When I discuss working at the university, an important part of the conversation must necessarily revolve around teaching and learning – after all, that’s a significant part of the work that we do at university (and it’s a part…
Constructive alignment and assessment
I must confess that, while i am aware of the term, I wasn’t until very recently entirely aware of the nature of what is meant by the term ‘constructive alignment’. However, I’ve now started looking into the term, with a mind for how it might be useful in the future, especially in the nature of…
Some thoughts about anonymity, confidentiality and social media.
One of the great challenges of undertaking any kind fo research or fieldwork in social media spaces is ensuring that people’s data is protected as appropriate. There is some discussion about how this should be done – and, indeed, whether it should be done at all. After all, the argument goes, if you’re only using…
Some thoughts on The New Despotism by John Keane
This will be a series of blog posts that I am writing to assist me in the work of developing my understanding of civics and citizenship education. Basically, I want to engage in a critical analysis, as it pertains to my interest in civics and citizenship education, of some of the key scholars in a…