For our current course, LRNT 524, our team was tasked with completing Stanford’s d.school design thinking challenge (Stanford University Institute of Design, 2016). The d.school’s stages of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test were all used in our process. Our team triad (Amanda, Christy, and Lorne) all work in very diverse contexts, yet the design process exposed a common need for our learners to build relationships and...
Read MoreIt’s our first week in LRNT524 – Innovation, Design, and Learning Environments in the RRU MALAT Program. Our first task is to review some readings on the ADDIE design model in the context of designing learning. Bates (2014) describes ADDIE thoroughly, breaking down the steps of Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate. ADDIE seems thorough, and aside from being noted by Bates (2014) as perhaps lacking an initial...
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