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Mastering the lightboard: Transforming complex ideas into clear, visual lessons

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 9 April 20259 April 2025

Using a lightboard can transform video lectures. This practical guide shares expert tips from academics and videographers to help you plan, present, and engage with confidence.

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  • Learning design

Learning from learners: How online discussions become “dead spaces”

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 19 July 202419 July 2024

Our online learners told us that their discussion forms were “dead spaces” and had “no value”. In this post I will explore how this may have happened and ask if there is anything we can do about it.

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  • Innovation

Simplifying success: Designing learning with the CAFE Model 

  • by Jonathon Thomas
  • Posted on 13 May 202424 May 2024

We’ve been providing distance education for over 100 years and we do this at scale, but designing good online learning is challenging. In pursuit of a solution we are proud to introduce the CAFE Model: a streamlined approach to learning design that emphasises the essential elements of what it takes to learn.

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  • AI

Unlocking the numbers: Accessible maths

  • by James Kyle
  • Posted on 12 March 202412 March 2024

Producing accessible and editable resources for online maths and science subjects using Mathpix

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  • Digital education reading group

Fostering online learning community ecosystems

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 13 February 202422 March 2024

This month the digital education reading group discusses the importance of online identity for online learners, and how we might foster online learning community ecosystems.

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  • AI

From AI to Aha!: Uncovering AI’s Educational Avenues

  • by Catherine Luck
  • Posted on 9 October 20239 October 2023

In this post, I’ll outline how we’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to help us develop online learning and I’ll share four key pieces of advice based on what we’ve learned this year.

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  • Practical

Behind the scenes: How we film for online learning

  • by Oliver Hodgkins
  • Posted on 20 August 202326 September 2023

A behind the scenes look at our filming and post production process.

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  • Learning design

When a learning designer becomes a student: Reflections on practice

  • by Hifzah Tariq
  • Posted on 3 February 202326 September 2023

Recently I had cause to question my own advice when my life as an online Master’s student collided with my professional role as a learning designer.

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Lessons from the studio: how to use a lightboard

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 2 November 202227 July 2023

In this interview with Daniel Bennet, videographer, we discuss how to get the best results from a lightboard. Dan has been producing videos for our new MSc Cyber Security, with Dr Konstantinos Mersinas from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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  • Learning design
  • Video

You decide! Exploring good practice with comparative judgement

  • by Vicky Devaney
  • Posted on 15 August 202227 July 2023

How we used an assessment technique called adaptive comparative judgement to help learners distinguish between good and bad interview practice, and how we used a novel animation technique to create video on a budget.

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