Category: Learning design

  • Conference to practice: more takeaways from ALT-C

    Conference to practice: more takeaways from  ALT-C

    ALT-C was intense. It featured more than 100 sessions, many of which called for some deep thinking and reflection. Some time has now passed since the ALT-C conference, so we thought it would be good to reflect on what stood out for us. Here, Mark, Olivia and Shawndra share their highlights.

  • Conference to practice: reflecting on a week at ALT-C

    Conference to practice: reflecting on a week at ALT-C

    I’ve been a Learning Designer for three years now, and ALT-C (The Association for Learning Technology Conference – September 2021) was my first conference within the role. While I’d never expected my first experience with this to be online, I must say I thought it was fabulous.

  • Designing a bootcamp – what did we get from the experience?

    Designing a bootcamp – what did we get from the experience?

    We’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2021 working on a Learning Design Bootcamp, alongside colleagues from several other HE institutions. As hosts in a typical sense we would normally have been physically hosting sessions for the bootcamp as well as contributing ideas toward the programme of activities and providing an OU LD flavour to the […]

  • Feedback loops: reflecting on five years of feedback from the curriculum design student panel 

    Feedback loops: reflecting on five years of feedback from the curriculum design student panel 

    If you’ve ever felt frustrated by a product that doesn’t seem to work for you, you’ll understand the importance of building opportunities for feedback into a design process. It’s certainly an essential part of our learning design process: alongside various organisation-wide evaluation initiatives whose insights we access as part of our work, the learning design team runs the curriculum design student panel, which provides opportunities for students […]