Designers For Learning

This Designers for Learning webinar was a meeting of facilitators of the Open ABE service MOOC held on Monday, February 8th. We reviewed important deadlines and MOOC / Canvas Updates. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a meeting of facilitators of the Open ABE service MOOC held on Thursday, January 28th. We reviewed important deadlines and MOOC / Canvas Updates. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a meeting of facilitators of the Open ABE service MOOC held on Thursday, January 7th. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/. We reviewed: 1) Important deadlines, 2) MOOC / Canvas Updates, 3) OER Commons, 4) Promoting the MOOC. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a meeting of design team members of the Open ABE service MOOC held on Wednesday, December 2nd. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/. We reviewed: 1) Important deadlines, 2) Deliverables – Toward a common language, 3) Open design questions, 4) Plans for facilitation, 5) Plans to promote the service MOOC, 6) Quick review of Canvas development (to date). Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Adult Learning Zone Design Team held on Thursday, November 12th. We reviewed our plans to utilize OER Commons to house the deliverables created by service learners in our upcoming open service MOOC. We reviewed each designer's assignments, including (a) utilizing OER Commons groups to house deliverables, (b) developing a Style Guide for MOOC participants, (c) using Open Author to develop the final deliverables, and (d) designing the last three learning modules of the MOOC to address these topics. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a meeting for the Open ABE Design Team held on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. Each designer reviewed the next iteration of their design plans for our open online course based on their designer assignments. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Adult Learning Zone Design Team held on Thursday, October 29th. We reviewed our plans to utilize OER Commons to house the deliverables created by service learners in our upcoming open service MOOC. We reviewed each designer's assignments, including (a) utilizing OER Commons groups to house deliverables, (b) developing a Style Guide for MOOC participants, (c) using Open Author to develop the final deliverables, and (d) designing the last three learning modules of the MOOC to address these topics. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Open ABE Design Team and SMEs held on Wednesday, October 28, 2015. Each designer reviewed the next iteration of their design plans for our open online course based on their designer assignments. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Open ABE Design Team held on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Each designer reviewed their design plans for our open online course based on their designer assignments. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Adult Learning Zone Design Team held on Thursday, October 8th. We reviewed the opportunity to utilize OER Commons to house the deliverables created by service learners in our upcoming MOOC. We divided assignments, including (a) reaching out to OER Commons for requirements to create a hub or microsite and (b) developing a Style Guide for MOOC participants. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Adult Learning Zone Design Team held on Thursday, September 10th. We reviewed the design plan for this project team, and divided designer assignments. Follow the project at http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/.

This Designers for Learning webinar was a special meeting for the Open ABE Design Team held on Wednesday, September 9th. We reviewed the design plan for our open online course, and divided designer assignments. http://studio.designersforlearning.org/fall2015openabedesign/

This Designers for Learning webinar was held on Wednesday, September 2nd at 7 p.m. (CDT). We kicked off our latest project with a brief live webinar to welcome volunteers to our latest instructional design project. The objective of the webinar was to (a) welcome volunteers to the project team, (b) provide a general overview of the project, and (c) field questions / comments about direction and next steps.

This Designers for Learning webinar was held on July 28, 2015. The purpose of the webcast was to discuss plans for our next service-learning project with those who have expressed interest in participating in the design and / or facilitation of the next iteration of our Designers for Learning service-learning projects that focus on the instructional design of open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education.

In this open house webinar held on June 23, 2015, several participants from our recent instructional design service-learning cohort joined us to showcase their design work and describe the experience. We also spent a few minutes talking about upcoming plans for our fall project.

Tracee Vetting Wolf joined us on Friday, June 5, 2015 to share her experiences designing and facilitating an open online course on the Canvas Network platform. Wendy Gentry and Jennifer Maddrell shared design ideas we are contemplating for the next iteration of our Designers for Learning service-learning projects, and discussed with Tracee the impact of designing and facilitating a significantly larger scale experience than we have tackled to date. To connect with Tracee and her work, please visit her website at www.traceevettingwolf.com.

This webcast was held on April 14, 2015 as part of our Spring 2015 service-learning project. Linked here is the agenda with notes from the session. Please follow along with us this semester at the students’ design studio at: http://studio.designersforlearning.org/spring2015gch/

This webcast was held on March 18, 2015 as part of our Spring 2015 service-learning project. Linked here is the agenda with notes from the session. Please follow along with us this semester at the students’ design studio at: http://studio.designersforlearning.org/spring2015gch/

This webcast was held on February 11, 2015 as part of our Spring 2015 service-learning project. Please follow along with us this semester at the students’ design studio at: http://studio.designersforlearning.org/spring2015gch/

This webcast was held on December 15, 2014, and reviews our service-learning projects for 2014. We ran through some highlights from the past year, and offered information to future design students who may choose to apply for volunteer positions in 2014. In addition to the video below, here is the slide deck from the session. If you would like to see the students’ work, point your browser to http://studio.designersforlearning.org/