Pre-Conference Workshop A4
Designing Humanistic Learning Experiences for Education, Training and Product Development
Date Wednesday, Nov 23 Time – RoomChess Price: 90.00 € Status: fully booked
Carol Damm
Head of Digital Education, Constructor University, Germany
Carol Damm leads the learning design team at Boston College and facilitates online program design for the wider Boston College community. She has more than 10 years experience in learning design in higher education and in online training. Carol has also taught online courses for instructional design and learning experience design programs at Boston College, UMASS Boston, and Brandeis.
Carol holds a MA in French, and MEd in Instructional Design & Technology, and is currently completing a PhD in Human Development and Learning at Lesley University. Her research interests focus on emotion science and identity formation as they relate to learning.
Melissa Kane
Senior Associate Director of Online Program Development, Brown University, United States of America
Melissa Kane is the senior associate director of online program development in the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. She provides strategic vision to the creation of online graduate degree programs and leads a cross-functional team in the development of priority online initiatives.
Under Melissa’s guidance, her team is the driver for course development of Brown’s first online Master of Public Health program for The School of Public Health. In her five years at Brown University, Melissa has held positions of increasing responsibility including lead instructional designer and associate director of learning design. She has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Johnson & Wales University and Brandeis University and has been the recipient of a university teaching award at Brandeis.
Most recently, she teaches Principles of Learning Experience Design (online) at Brandeis Graduate Professional Studies (GPS). Melissa provides learning experience design consultations and speaking engagements in both the public and private sectors of education and learning & development across the United States. She received her Ed.D. from Northeastern University, her M.S.Ed. from State University at New York in Oswego, and her B.A. from Colby-Sawyer College.
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In the wake of the global pandemic, the learning design field has become its own “Norman Door,” (a door with deficient functionality). Well-intentioned, learning design has become a generic set of principles that functions under the guise of being “learner-centered.”
By holding onto the research-informed cognitive learning theories and instructional design frameworks that we have depended on since the late-20th century, pandemic learning design has revealed cracks in the practice that have widened access and equity gaps across all sectors.
As the world enters a post-pandemic space, it is time to redefine the practice of learning design and draw from a broader base to move beyond the confines of foundational theories from learning science toward other multidisciplinary considerations.
This interactive workshop will first contextualise and define the role of the learner in each of the three major sectors, including education, EdTech and corporate learning and development.
Then, leaning on literature from other design fields, as well as emerging learning sciences, the workshop facilitators will engage participants in co-designing a new, integrated design framework tailored to each sector and that aim to redefine humanistic learner experiences in the 21st century.
Outcomes
- Contextualise evidence-informed learning design practices that can support or impede the learners’ experience.
- Review foundational theories from learning science through the lens of equity and access.
- Incorporate design theories from other disciplines to broaden our representation of learning experience design.
- Co-construct an integrated design framework for learning experience design for application in the education, EdTech and learning and development sectors.
Agenda
- 14:30-14:45 Introductions
- 14:45-15:15 Contextualise learners by sector
- 15:15-15:45 Explore humanistic design practices
- 15:45-16:15 Coffee break
- 16:15-16:45 Co-construct interdisciplinary design frameworks (by sector)
- 16:45-17:30 Participants' insights and closing remarks
Audience
- Learning designers in education, EdTech and Learning and Development
- Learning and Development leaders
- Educational leaders
- EdTech developers and designers
Level: any level