Here is a presentation about the GCLD that I made the the ASCILITE TELedvisors SIG. The formatting is a bit screwed because I converted it to a Google Slides presentation.
Category: Learning Design
Education and Complexity
One of the things that I’m really enjoying about my sojourn into higher education at the moment is the chance to really engage with – and do some deep thinking about – some of my previously cherished notions about education. I guess this is part of becoming an increasingly critical thinker – and consumer –…
Epistemology and Subject Matter Experts
My graduate certificate is slowly making its way through the various committee it needs to in order to be approved. There are, of course, always comments and suggestions about how the subjects and even the course as a whole might best be improved or altered. I think I’ve mentioned elsewhere that there are some concerns…
Design: Designing for Learning
I feel that my ideas for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design are really beginning to be formed at quite a granular level. This makes sense as I am now in the process of developing the full subject descriptions for each of the eight subjects. I’m prioritising four to begin with as they will be…
Pandemics and Online Learning
1. This is not business as normal. The first point that I think is really important to make is that, due to the effects of COVID19, we are not dealing with a normal or orderly transition to online or distance learning. Rather, we are dealing with what many Learning Designers are describing as emergency remote…
Create: Designing Interactive Learning Objects
Another subject that I’m really interested in – and looking forward to – teaching is a subject that I have tentatively entitled ‘Create: Designing Interactive Learning Objects’. I flipped back and forth about calling it Create or Design. To be honest, I’m not entirely sure it matters – I think that it’s clear what the…
Some Reflections on Alone Together
This will be a series of blog posts that I am writing to assist me in the work of developing my book. 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 range of different fields. I…
Think: Theories of Learning and the Implications for Learning Design
One of the most overlooked factors in learning design – at least in a technical sense- is how closely its evolution is bound up in various theoretical approaches to learning. Even its predecessor – although I dispute that term, instead preferring to consider it an earlier version of the same thing, instructional design – was…
Predict: Current and Future Trends in Learning Design
One of the subjects that I am currently developing for the Graduate Certificate in Leanring Design is called Predict: Current and Future Trends in Learning Design. Originally, I had wanted this subject to be an exploration of the directions that Leanring design might be heading in; I felt that there was sufficient interest and scholarship…
Different Perspectives of Learning Design: Representation
I’ve been reading a lot of James Dalziel’s work on Learning Design -specifically his edited text Learnign Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching and Learning Online. This book takes as its starting point The Lanarca Declaration on Learning Design (2013), which sought to encapsulate the then status fo learning design as a field of Practice…