At the start of the summer I mentioned how asynchronous design had to be taken more seriously in the way we thought about modern learning. I seemed to have lost my way* in completing the list of topics – the last post on this was in June – so I will look at the next… Read More Asynchronous creative practice
The next part of asynchronous design I mentioned previously was about questions. Questions are simple to fix aren’t they? Craft a FAQ document and away you go. This is where we get much learning design so very wrong. The worst examples of poor design mean we have FAQ documents that: Go on for dozens of… Read More Asynchronous questions
The next factor in the design for asynchronous learning I mentioned last week is about accessibility. I’ve mentioned the 4 facets of digital literacy before: Can/Can’t Will/Won’t Have/Haven’t Should/Shouldn’t And in terms of asynchronous design they’re fundamental to making sure that interaction (as mentioned before) is accessible. Think of the person looking at content in… Read More Asynchronous accessibility
I mentioned yesterday that we’re getting design wrong for asynchronous learning. There are some core principles to be included in the way we need to think about design – the first of these is interaction. Interaction covers a few relationships and each need to be addressed differently when we design for asynchronous learning support. The… Read More Asynchronous Interaction
I’ve mentioned asynchronous within learning a few times and I’m not convinced that there’s a clear understanding of how fundamental a shift this will make for learning design. The idea of blending (mixing face to face/online meeting with additional elements) is pretty well known across the learning profession now but many failures exist in the… Read More It’s not just ‘sticking it online’
Lost and Desperate 