Our final assignment for the RRU MALAT course LRNT 524 presented the opportunity to design a challenge for my peers and develop a pitch for my leadership to tell them why I felt the redesign of our training course was necessary. I chose to use the context of redesigning the way we teach Neonatal Resuscitation Program courses within our health authority, with the goal of improving the learning environment for our students. In...
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LRNT 524 has engaged us in readings that reflect on the meaning of innovation. Innovation is a word without a clear definition. Skillicorn’s (2016) blog post demonstrates the diversity in opinion around the meaning of innovation and guides our reflections on what innovation means to each of us. Some definitions of innovation that I connected with in Skillicorn’s (2016) article: Gijs van Wulfen: “An innovation is a...
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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...
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It’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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