26.11.2025, 09:00–09:45 o'clock (Europe/Berlin), Green Room
The ability to create engaging learning experiences is key to the effective delivery of education and the development of lifelong learners. Globally, we are seeing the growth of learning design practices, which are influencing and enhancing traditional teaching and education practices. Yet adoption is hampered by the lack of a system of design practices, language and shared approaches. Is there space for more open systems and practices to help share experiences and practices? Are there ways that we can create bespoke experiences that suit specific learners, locations and situations rather than embrace the restrictions of a templated approach? This presentation will introduce an approach based on the concepts of ‘learning patterns’ that sets the groundwork for an open approach to creating a learning design system that can be adopted across sectors, languages, technologies and systems. While still very much in development, this system has already been used at the University of Adelaide and in various other institutions around the world to help support their learning design efforts and has the potential to form a foundation for open practices around learning experience design.
Beginners, Advanced, Professionals
Additional information –This presentation includes the use of two open resources: https://learning-types.com/ & https://learning-patterns.com/
Language of the session –English
I am a Manager of Education Design at the University of Adelaide. For the past six years, I have been overseeing the design and development of fully online undergraduate and postgraduate programs, new curriculum development and MOOCs. I have worked extensively on developing strategic initiatives and innovations in online education, focusing on enhancing the student experience through learning design, effective teaching practices, and the development and deployment of new technologies. I have managed the roll-out, piloting and innovation development in educational technology at both the small-scale and institutional levels. My current focus is on developing sustainable and effective learning design practices and exploring the idea of creating a Learning Design System within our team.
I've developed the online resources for Learning Types and Learning Patterns, blog at Heart Soul Machine and am @timklapdor on Mastodon.