Ipsative Portfolio Assessment: a response to AI
First posted on Substack The AI arms race still rages. Students will identify AI writing support tools, educators will rearm […]
Learning Design
Building Beautiful Learning – a Manifesto
FIRST PUBLISHED ON SUBSTACK In 2007, I was invited to deliver a ‘keynote’ at the opening of the National e-Learning
Psychomotor outcomes and A.I.: the future of learning design.
There is a looming skills deficit across all disciplines currently being taught in Universities today. The vast majority of degree
Why we need to change how we design courses.
There are many courses out there that do a great job of teaching manual, dexterity and physical capabilities. From bricklaying,
Blended by us or differentiated by learners: the future of courseware design
Ten years ago, in 2011, I wrote a blog entitled ‘there’s no such things as blended learning’, which essentially suggested
What are the four key skills required of learning designers or instructional designers?
Let’s talk about the skills required of learning designers, or instructional designers. Context makes all the difference. Learning design in
Approaching learning and teaching from different perspectives
This presentation was prepared in the first months of the Covid pandemic to argue that educational designers would be vital
8-SLDF, Academic Practice, Academic Professional Development, Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Constructive Alignment, Learning Design
Overview of the 8-Stage Learning Design Framework (11’48”)
This an introduction to a new resource being shared on this website, the 8-Stage Learning Design Framework, or 8-SLDF for short.
Academic Practice, Academic Professional Development, Assessment, Constructive Alignment, Feedback, Higher Education, Learning Design
Four contractual agreements to make with your students about feedback (3’30”)
There are social conventions, unwritten rules, around feedback in a formal education setting. Most students associate feedback as coming from
Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Learning Analytics, Learning Design, SOLE
Using Learning Design to Unleash the Power of Learning Analytics
Atkinson, S.P. (2015). Using Learning Design to Unleash the Power of Learning Analytics. In T. Reiners, B.R. von Konsky, D.
Learning Design, SOLE
Enhancements to the SOLE Tookit – now version 3.5
I have no idea what the protocol is for naming versions of things. I imagine, like me, someone has an
Academic Practice, Toolkit
Rich visualizations and costing in SOLE 3.5
As promised this version of the SOLE Toolkit, 3.5, remain a free, unprotected and macro-free Excel workbook with rich functionality to serve the learning designer. Version 3.5 has two significant enhancements.
Rich visualization of the learning spaces and tools: that students are to engage with in their learning. This provides an alternative, fine-grain, view of the students modes of engagement in their learning.
Faculty-time calculations in design and facilitating: based on the learning spaces and tools to be used
Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Theoretical Perspectives, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Why ‘learning analytics’ is like a sewer
Back in the late northern hemisphere summer of 2013 I drafted a background paper on the differences between Educational Data
Academic Professional Development, Epistemology, Learning Design, Taxonomy, Theoretical Perspectives
Visualisation of Educational Taxonomies
Sharing a paper today on the visualisation of educational taxonomies. I have finally got around to putting into a paper
Academic Professional Development, Epistemology, Learning Design, Teaching Practice
Visualising Outcomes: domains, taxonomies and verbs
NOTE: updated high-quality visualisations of these taxonomies are available here. I think being able to visualise things is important. Faculty
Staff Development, Toolkit
Modes of Engagement: Version 2.3 of Toolkit released
Can one know too much about the learning we design? Why is it we appear to know so little? It’s
DiAL-e and SOLE at Distance Education Conference Madison-Wisconsin 2011
The 27th Annual Distance Learning and Teaching Conference at Madison-Wisconsin this August was a diverse and varied programme attended by some
SOLE Model Poster at ALDinHE 2011
This year the ALDinHE conference had as its theme – “Engaging Students – Engaging Learning” and was a series of