OU Learning Design team blog

The Open University’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We have a similar role as learning designers: we’re committed to meeting the needs of all students. Inclusive curriculum is at the heart of this. Here are the three principles developed by the OU’s Access, Participation and Success team to guide…

Students are at the heart of learning design. Part of the role of the learning design team is to explore students’ needs through data and research. We then work with module authors and other colleagues to to advise on how these needs can be met. Curriculum design student panel Our student panel now has nearly…

We need to make sure that the learning we create is suitable for everyone. That means we need to think about students’ needs and goals right from the start of the learning design process, and then design learning actitivies that we know will meet these. Use our top tips to reflect on your students’ needs…

We’ve found Twitter to be a great way to keep up with research, share our practice and make new connections. However, we juggle tweeting with our daily learning design work, and it can easily become distracting and time consuming. These tips outline the tools and techniques that helped us make the most of Twitter and…

Key questions to ask 1 . Students Who are your learners? What is their starting point? What are the enablers and barriers to learning? What outcomes do they need to achieve? What will they do to learn? How will you measure success? 2. Inclusion and diversity What do you want the student experience to be?…