‘Resilience’: the latest hyped up term being applied to education.

Resilient tree in the desert

“If you managed to cover the absences of staff successfully last semester, are you maybe just over staffed?” If you managed to move all of your learning in a frantic fortnight with minimal support, well “how hard can it be,

What are the four key skills required of learning designers or instructional designers?

Image of design sketches

Let’s talk about the skills required of learning designers, or instructional designers.  Context makes all the difference. Learning design in a face-to-face University context looks very different from an online instructional designer working in a government department or commercial enterprise.