I have a broad network across social media, developed through my work in different countries. My twitter account (@keithheggart) has almost 1500 followers, and my LinkedIn profile has more than 800 connections. My followers come, for the most part, from Australia, the USA and the UK. One way that I collaborate on a global scale…
Category: Learning Design
CMALT: The Wider Context
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…
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…
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…
Social media, social movements and scraping (part two)
I’ve been doing some more work on social media scraping and data analysis. In particular, I’ve been thinking about what kind of measures we can put into place in order to examine the kind of learning that is taking place across the social media platforms. This also needs to be assessed based on the kind…
Some reflections on Small Teaching Online
This will be a series of blog posts that I am writing to assist me in the work of developing my course in Learning Design. I’m trying to stay abreast of current research and writing in the field of learning design, instructional design and other, related fields. This will help inform my own practice, but…