I’ve been aware of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for a long time – my colleague Greg Alchin has taught me a lot about it over the course of our acquaintance, and I’ve been to a few sessions on it over time, but up until the last couple of years, I haven’t really had the…
Category: Learning Design
Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Assessment
I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently about the role of artificial intelligence in education for my subject Predict: Current and Future Trends in e-Learning. I approach the notion of AI with a fair amount of skepticism- over 20 years, I am yet to see an educational technology to fully realise its potential, and…
Gamification and Learning?
I’ve been reading a lot about gamification and learning in the last couple of weeks. Some of this will have an influence on Predict: Current and future trends in e-learning in, which is one of the subjects in the new Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. In some ways, I’m sad that I can only focus…
Teachmeets and Learning Design
I’ve been looking at Teachmeets as a bit of a research interest for a couple of weeks now. I think it’s a really quite interesting space, and part of that interest comes from, I think, the different – and perhaps conflicting ways – that teachers are using movements like Teachmeets. Equally, I’m not entirely certain…
Some thoughts regarding designing a curriculum for learning designers
I think this is a theme that I’ve addressed before, but I think it’s worth revisiting it regularly, as my thinking regarding the development of a learning design curriculum changes. I’m also thinking that it might be worth writing up some of these thoughts in a more formal sense as I continue, as I’m sure…
I’ve been info-graphed!
Onder Sit, an educator from overseas, reach out to me to tell me that he had made some comments from me into an infographic. He did a pretty good job, so I thought I would share it here, too.
Presentation to TELedvisors SIG
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.
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…