Course: Blended and Online Learning Design

The text in Downloads shows how the learning types relate to both conventional and digital technologies, and suggests examples of digital tools that work well with each learning type. Here …

The previous exercise was about creating a learning design for the learning outcome ‘to learn a cognitive skill’, which should be relevant to most teachers at some stage. This exercise …

In the video, James Mannion, from UCL Institute of Education, Learning and Leadership, introduces the ‘implementation science’ approach to any kind of institutional change. The move to more online learning …

Learning through practice is particularly challenging when circumstances mean that students are unable to attend f2f classes and workshops. The video shows ways of scaffolding students’ work between f2f sessions, …

The video Introduces the Learning Designer, a free, online, learning design tool for teachers. Based on the Conversational Framework, it builds in the six learning types so that the user …

Now we look at using the Learning Designer to support your design process, whether it’s for blended or wholly online learning. The video talks through how the Learning Designer tool …

The video talks you through the Conversational Framework. a simple distillation of many theories of learning developed over the last hundred years or so, to support teachers in designing for …

An effective way of supporting students learning through discussion is to embed it in collaborative learning. You can give them a practical learning task they must do together, where they …

We have to talk about workload. For teachers there is an inevitable significant increase in workload as we move from conventional to online teaching and learning. The move from conventional …

The video shows some of the ways digital methods can help with the different types of formative assessment, or assessment for learning (not summative assessment for grading). We look at …