The learning design wheel

The Open University's Learning Design team have created a word wheel to help shape your planning. The wheel is an interactive image of how to make your course attractive to learners.

In this activity you will review the image. As you do, think about how the ideas reflect your experience of what you have done in the past or can do to attract learners to a course.

Follow the following steps:

• Step 1. Click on The learning design wheel, to launch the interactive full screen.
• Step 2. Follow the instructions on the right to review the image. There are three instructions for you to toggle the numbers 1, 2 and 3 one at a time. For instance, to toggle 1, click and hold the mouse at the 1 while rotating the wheel. As you do this, make notes of the words that are revealed.
• Step 3. For the purpose of this activity, choose three words that you would use to describe what makes a course attractive to learners.
• Step 4. Now returning to your notes from the previous session about your experiences of course design, use the three words you identified in Step 3 to describe what makes a course attractive to learners.

Get started with Session 3.