Our online master’s programmes provide a leading digital learning experience, meaning students can receive a King’s education from anywhere in the world.
Transitioning academic’s teaching materials into engaging online content is the essential work of the King's Digital internal Learning Design team. We’ve been speaking to France Barth, Senior Learning Designer, and Lindsey Fulker, Learning Designer, about their work and the process of creating a captivating and informative online learning experience.
As Learning Designers, we work side-by-side with academics to create effective, engaging, and efficient learning experiences for students. It’s not a case of taking teaching materials and turning them into PDFs or inviting students to join online lectures. Instead at King’s, we work directly with faculty and module leads to deliberately structure and plan a tailored learning experience that allows students to become subject experts.
Active learning is a key element of the programme design, meaning students can complete short lessons that have repeat practice throughout the week.
Learning steps come in a variety of forms; from lessons containing reading, videos and graphics, to activities such as investigation, analysis tasks and quizzes which help embed knowledge, and asynchronous forums and live webinars to facilitate discussion.
Everything we design keeps in mind that students won’t always have hours on end to work through materials and may want to study in frequent bitesize chunks. Therefore, we build a range of activities online to help students retain information and stay engaged.
In addition to working in such a great team, it’s a privilege to have access to all this content. Talking to subject experts on a one-to-one basis and diving into the programmes they’ve developed first hand with them is amazing. You gain an education in fascinating subjects whilst doing your job!
It’s a privilege to talk to experts and really dive into the meaning behind it all: what’s their ethos, what are their opinions and what are they trying to teach.
Thank you to France and Lindsey for speaking to us about their work!
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