Following my conviction that hiring a learning designer is the single most impactful thing any university can do to advance teaching and learning, I’d like to feature as many of these searches as ...

Whenever someone from the learning design community moves into an institutional leadership role, I take note. In this case, the story is close to home. My friend, colleague (and new boss) Erin DeSilva ...

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. But one group is often ...

If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that understanding the whole student matters. Since March of 2020, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of person hours have been spent enabling ...

The future of higher education means breaking down classroom walls, embracing digital tools and engaging students with creativity and innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention. And within the ...

As districts across the country search for ways to support early childhood learning, designers, architects and planners can play an important role in creating developmentally-appropriate facilities ...

“Imagine a world in which every child’s life is a succession of positive opportunities for development—opportunities through which a child can come to know who they are and discover the wide range of ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...