Learning Design

Learning Design @ WelTec
Cheryl Brown

26^th September, 2013

Summary

There are several learning design approaches some of which I have identified here. I’ve focussed on some work coming out of the University of Leicester in which Laurillard, Conole and Salmon have participated. These three women are influential in the learning/eLearning world.

I’ve also taken a snap shot of how learning design happens at WelTec – from the Ed Tech perspective.

Finally I made some recommendations – which the readers are free to adapt and or adopt.

Cheryl Brown

2 October, 2013

Learning design and models for development

The overarching and commonly used model for development is the ADDIE model Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate.  WelTec adopts this approach by default and in theory, but in practice this may be less integrated than we’d desire.

An overarching model used for software development  and team management is AGILE. Some key points of AGILE are flexibility, integrated testing and an iterative approach (Waters, 2007).

This discussion looks at some ways that learning design has been incorporated into course developments and focus on Grainne Conole’s 7Cs of learning design at University of Leicester.