Welcome
Hi! I design learning. That means that I use a systematic approach to identify and specify all the experiences students need to achieve the desired learning outcomes and I also design assessments that will provide evidence of the student’s achievement.
There are several approaches to designing learning:
- Learning Experience Design is a new approach using Design Thinking and emphasising the students’ experience
- Learning Design is a constructivist, student-centred approach particularly suited to universities
- Instructional Design has a longer history, with a huge theory base particularly relevant to adult learning and vocational education. The instructional design role often involves project management.
Designing learning involves collaboration with SMEs, Learning Technologists, Graphic Artists, Digital Media Developers and writers. When I am working for universities, lecturers, academic reviewers, librarians and other faculty members become involved. When I am working in the vocational education sector, I collaborate with trainers and compliance officers.
I am rarely an expert in the subject matter, and this is often an advantage because it helps me identify pain points in the design. What I bring to the design is a huge toolkit of pedagogical approaches, techniques, theories, models and principles gained through study, experience and networking.
And that brings me to
The purpose of this website:
- To locate relevant ideas and resources quickly, when and where I need them for learning design.
- To share ideas and important information with colleagues.
- To reflect on what I am reading and document new ideas.
- To share ideas with family, friends and the people I tutor.
On this website, you will find (eventually)
A glossary of educational terms
I’m aiming to collect all the different definitions of learning, and list all the different types of learning.
Useful theories about learning:
- How old they are
- The development context
- Assumptions
- Principles
- Boundary conditions (when they fail)
- Common misconceptions
- The strength of the evidence
- Criticisms
Study techniques
- What is it? What kind of learning results?
- And why does it work?
- Who does it work for? Under what circumstances?
- What skills do I need before I can use it?
- What’s the evidence?
- How will I know it works?
Tips on learning from home
Pedagogical approaches
- Active learning
- Authentic learning
- Blended learning
- Cognitive apprenticeship model
- Collaborative learning
- Community of enquiry
- Design thinking
- Differentiated learning
- Directed learning
- Embodied learning
- ePortfolios
- Experiential learning
- Flipped learning
- Graphic organisers
- Instructionism
- Mobile learning
- Peer learning
- Problem-based learning
- Project-based learning
- Self-directed learning
- Social presence
- Transformative learning
Instructional design models
- 4c/ID model
- 7Cs of Learning Design
- ABC Learning design
- Action Mapping
- ADDIE
- Agile Learning Design (ADL)
- Backwards design
- Carpe Diem
- Design Layers
- Design thinking
- Grounded Design
- Instructional Systems Design
- ISD/SAT
- Kemp design model
- Kirkpatrick model
- Rapid Instructional Design
- Ten Steps to Complex Learning
- TPACK