Tag: learning design
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Learning Engineering: Collaboration, Context and Challenge
There are many approaches to improve what we do in education, with a sometimes overwhelming number of internal and external factors that bring opportunities and challenges. Learning Engineering (an engineering-inspired approach to educational design, as opposed to the study of engineering) provides a method to tackle these opportunities and challenges in a collaborative, data-informed and…
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Context and culture: Research in Distance Education and E-learning Conference 2025 – Day 1
Online education brings together many people as educators, students and professionals. It’s a highly collaborative sector and it’s underpinned in many ways by a desire to do good. This year’s Research in Distance Education and E-learning conference at the University of London has the title ‘Empowering and Sustaining Change’ and in any change process the…
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Strategy, marketing, student insights: triad of online education success
Short post, open thinking. It’s always good to hear Neil Mosley speak and even better when as an audience member, he asks the questions that need to be asked! At an event today hosted by Boundless Learning, Mosley explored three aspects of what makes for successful online education: strategy, marketing and student insights and development.…
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Recognition: Opening doors to new learning journeys – Reflections on ePIC 2024
A key aspect of inclusivity is to establish the ways in which learners are supported to bring their knowledge and understanding into an educational environment. At the ePIC 2024 Open Recognition conference in Paris (6-8 November 2024), the ideas of recognition, qualifications and learning journeys were debated and discussed. For me there are three concepts…
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Humanising digital education: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 3
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 3 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. Humanising the approach to learning technology has come through as a theme this year. Starting with Chris Friend’s keynote, followed by discussions about learners’ personalisation and spaces of learning in breakout sessions, and on the final day…
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Connected conversations: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 2
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 2 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. The common theme I extracted from the day is about purposefully connected digital education. This is not just about connecting learners and connecting spaces, but also connecting the curriculum to professional skills through the use of technology. Student…
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Visions of the future: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 1
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 1 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. Humanising digital education Opening keynote, Chris Friend’s three aspects of humane education (policies, places and platforms) offer lenses on the challenges and opportunities the arise from decision-making over how, when and why educational technology is used. For…
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Metaphors of learning design: learning paths
Short post, open thinking. How often do you widen your view when learning? It can be very easy to focus on where you are on a particular path, in a specific moment in time knowing what is right in front of you. As a learner, this is the immediate learning need you’re trying to address…
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Defining quality in online education: engagement and outcomes
This article presents a model for quality in online education to support decision-making by learning designers, digital media specialists and academic colleagues in the design and development of online courses. Whilst there are many standards and, in the case of formal education, regulatory frameworks that provide criteria against which online courses may be measured, these…