Here you’ll find stories and audio reviews (see below) on Learning Design in practice for everybody. It should be seen as the fifth part of the book with the same title.
Episode 1: The impact of emotions
Listen to the story {Play} Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a conceptual educational framework in which access is a formal principle rather than an add-on. UDL is thus an approach to educational access that is proactive rather than reactive, benefiting not just students with disabilities but improving access for …
Listen to the story {Play} VUCA, a term first described in 1985 by economists and university professors Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, is often used to characterize the Digital Age. VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. In this world, things change at a pace that is difficult for …
Listen to the story {Play} A research study shows interesting results of how different video game types affect white matter in the brain and cognitive skills. A result that gives new input to skills training with games. The research focussed on the impact of strategy games and action games. The …
Listen to the story {Play} A report from McKinsey on how to future-proof citizens’ work skills shows the way to today’s and the future labour market. The result is based on a survey of 18,000 people in 15 countries where the following three categories of critical skills for the whole …
Listen to the story {Play} How can you improve school education with augmented reality lessons? In schools that are using the flipped classroom in Austria, 90 percent want to continue using the pedagogy. A survey on the subject shows that e.g. mathematics and English have improved dramatically by flipping the …
Listen to the story {Play} A multi-disciplinary research team from the University of Minnesota, USA, University of Waterloo, Canada, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, Old Dominion University, USA, and the University of Basel, Switzerland has developed a research method to use psychology models to research the impact of …
Listen to the story {Play} The future of education is cross-disciplinary. One-size-fits-all classroom education becomes an adaptive learning environment. Educational publishers becoming learning science companies. And as facts in an ever-changing world fast get obsolete focus instead will be set on analysis, understanding, and learning by doing etc. Especially, since …
Listen to the story {Play} Learning styles, the subject is to some extent controversial in the field of research, but not if you ask teachers. In this story, we look into the background from the research of Howard Gardner and then solutions like computer games and books that are empowered …
Listen to the story {Play} Boosted involvement and engagement, deepened personalisation, and streamlined administration, this is what these technologies basically accomplish for education, but there are loads of added value beyond this. And since the digital age is triggered by trial- and error applications. It embraces and demands individual talent …
Listen to the story {Play} A traditional meeting room is really an obstacle. Since it is designed as a replica of the old industrial society’s assembly lines and labour division. Where creativity at best is the same as that some can manage to think out of the box. But why …
