Learning design

What is learning design?

Your course may be very short, simple and straightforward.

However, you still need to think about the learning design and how your audience might benefit from a well-designed resource. The Learning Design team at the OU has a blog that includes learning design resources that you might find useful. 

Some key points you need to consider are:

• your course’s audience and its purpose
• developing your course’s structure, including your learners’ journey through it and how to build up their knowledge (known as ‘scaffolding’)
• developing clear learning outcomes and interesting activities
• using plain English, making your course straightforward to understand
• whether you’d like any kind of assessment.