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Engage students in authentic assessment Maximise the outcomes from assessment Raise awareness of the value of open educational resources in learning and teaching The process of integrating OER in assessment design requires some changes to an existing assessment. However, we found that the assessment redesign doesn’t require change of...
So who are my users? In the learning and teaching space, your users really depend on who you are. Subject coordinator: if you are a subject coordinator, your users are both your students and the members of your teaching team. Teaching team member: if you are a member of a...
Iterative design cycle There are many different design models put forward by different proponents, (double diamond, design thinking process, etc). Without going into the detail of these various methodologies, the below is a simple version that we can use to think about how we might try to solve learning and...
Fixing things that don’t seem to work While you can use the design process to identify issues you are generally not aware of, often we already know when there is something that is not working as desired in our learning and teaching. The flags in these situations are often...
While we may be able to see that there is a problem, knowing more about the situation can help us identify a potential solution or get validation that the solution we have in mind might actually work. Creating a research plan is a useful way to frame such research...
Interpreting the collected information/data is a critical stage in the process, whether that information is analytic data or direct text comments from students (i.e., quantitative or qualitative). Acting on comments without taking time to interpret them is a common mistake that can lead to actions that don’t solve the...
As part of learning and teaching we need to make a lot of decisions about what we create and the experiences we provide. When you are working towards a goal, or you need to fix something because there is a problem, there are a few key questions you will...
There are a range of HCD tools that are useful for gaining a greater understanding of a problem space. They are not a solution in themselves, but rather a lens or a map that can help you see and find different things you might like to respond to. While these...
While creating a response to a problem and evaluation are often seen as separate processes (with an evaluation step often being an afterthought), these two actions are tightly intertwined in the HCD process. A prototype is a test, and thus the nature of the prototype and the shape it...
If you decide to use methods that involve asking questions that users respond to (asking people, survey, interview, etc) the framing/design of those questions should focus on the sorts of things that participants would be able to comment on from their own experience. While you may be trying to...
