Category: Learning Design

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I’ve been making reasonable progress with this work on a Grad Cert in Learning Design. However, one thing that has become a significant issue that needs to be addressed, at both an institutional level and, I think, more widely, is the relationship between learning design and leadership. I’m using both of these terms loosely, but…

For a long time I’ve been a bit of a dabbler in a range of computer related fields. I did do some very basic programming at High School – which I enjoyed, but I don’t think I really pushed the envelope of what was possible – and I did a little bit more when I…