This is the second in a (hopefully) three part series on the social model of disability in learning. Part one introduces the social model of disability. Part three is still mostly in my head and details how using the social model of disability has improved my training and learning design. Fundamentally, the social model of …
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This is the first in a (hopefully) three part series on the social model of disability in learning. Part two explores how to apply the social model to learning. Part three is still mostly in my head and details how using the social model of disability has improved my training and learning design. Many people who …
At the beginning of April, I finished the first of four courses that make up H880 Technology-enhanced learning: foundations and futures. These are my takeaways from the course. Academics love an acronym, but not a definition. Technology-enhanced learning or TEL is the key concept of the whole module, but there’s no concrete definition. I found …
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Trainers and learning designers need to be able to make their learning accessible. I’ve curated an ever-evolving list of tools to help you do that. I can’t have included everything; let me know in the comments what I’ve missed. General guidelines Universal Design for Learning guidelines. This really needs its own blog post, hopefully coming …
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The assessment for the ODI’s Data Ethics Facilitators course is to deliver a 30 minute live facilitated data ethics session. Many of the participants originally claim that it is not possible, so we get them to experience an example as well as watching recordings of some previous sessions. Here is my session with the accompanying …
When we first got to New Zealand I spent 8 weeks freelancing for the wonderful people at Freeformers. They were based in London, I was moving around New Zealand. Here are 7 things that I learnt in the process. Someone’s always working I worked on things during my day, and then they worked on things …
Recently I’ve quite a bit of learning design around personal branding, self-leadership and goal setting. If you type combinations of those words into a search bar the internet starts screaming at you. Things like: “SET YOUR PERSONAL VISION THAT ALIGNS TO YOUR VALUES” “BE TRUE AND AUTHENTIC TO YOUR VALUES” “MARKET YOURSELF AS A THOUGHT …
Spoiler: we can’t do everything. There really is a lot of pressure on learning designers. It seems to be the case that the learning team is considered to have magical powers. That they can snap their fingers and create something that has life – and business – changing results. I’ve seen job ads that expect …