What is this site?
Welcome to this site looking at how to design learning materials, or to give it its old fashioned name, instructional design.
What it says is based on the experience and knowledge I have gained over the years as a learning designer, both designing materials and training others to do it.
The methodology described is based around a number of learning design philosophies that, to my thinking, contribute significantly to the field.
Who is it for?
This site will be of interest to anyone involved in the design of learning materials of all kinds.
Although it is focused on the design of distance learning (paper- and e-), much is relevant to designing face to face events as well.
How do you use it?
The site divides the process of learning design into three stages:
- analysing the need
- planning the overall design
- doing the detailed design
The structure and content of pages reflects the design process, so there is a logical sequence of pages to follow, if you wish.
You can look at the content:
- sequentially by following the arrows at the bottom of each page, or
- topic by topic, as suits your interest
Click on the logo in the top left corner at any time to go to the site map.
(C) Bryan Hopkins, 2005