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…
Category: Learning Design
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…
Social Justice and Learning Design
My slides from a recent presentation.
What does social justice in learning design look like?
Learning through Covid-19: Social Justice and the digital divide | 15 July What does social justice in learning design look like? Introduction I’ve had a bit of a history with social justice education – it’s often mentioned in the same discussions as civics and citizenship education, human rights education and a few other areas in…
All assessment, all the time (part two)
In the previous post about this topic, I discussed the challenges of assessing online discussion posts as a proxy for learning and also a proxy for physical real conversations. In this blog, I wanted to advance a few ideas about how this might be changed – and what that change might look like in terms…
All assessment, all the time (part one)
I’ve had the privilege of speaking with a few well respected academic about learning design and education more generally over the course of the last couple of weeks as we work towards putting together a grant proposal. Quite naturally, our discussions about the grant have wandered off into interesting areas relating to education and especially…