The BILD host a Pre-Conference Seminar
Online Educa Berlin, 2007
Re-discovering Learning Design - The Crucial Steps for Effective Learning
Workshop 9 - 14.30-18.00
A programme of optional Seminars and Workshops will take place on Wednesday November 28th, offering participants the opportunity to learn a new skill, enhance their knowledge or gather information about a specific topic. Not only are such activities excellent opportunities in themselves but they are also extremely valuable pre-conference networking activities in their own right. These are either full or half day events and the number of participants is limited.
Please reserve your place early!
About the BILD pre-conference seminar
New approaches and initiatives in higher education, in lifelong and corporate learning have led to a huge increase in the availability of learning opportunities, programmes and courses. In the UK, a range of initiatives have created the largest vocational e-learning network of its kind in the world with more than two million people having taken a course.
With this and a wide range of experience to draw from, the BILD is in a unique position to comment on the efficacy of present training provision. It has promoted discussion with a number of external organisations on the state of learning design arising from shared perceptions that learning design has not kept pace with developments in available methodologies and technologies for the delivery of learning. Learning design principles do not appear to be soundly embedded in many programmes which means that learners are not engaged in as stimulating and engaging manner as they might with the potential for early drop out and lack of completion.
The net result of these discussions has produced a shared view that:
- Much of what is produced by many Learning Designers has ‘surface appeal’ but has no pedagogic substance
- Learning Designers do not have creative overview in many instances
- Rapid Development (RD) tools promote a further decline in the status of learning design; in this process learning design is perceived to have a smaller role in development
- Currently the status for Learning Designers as a professional community is low; they come from a wide range of backgrounds and there is a need for more profile.
- QA of much of Learning Design is poor.
To reserve a place at this pre-conference seminar and to view a list of all other pre-conference workshops and seminars, please click here