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’