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Building a learning simulation with generative AI: design principles

  • by Catherine Luck
  • Posted on 30 September 202630 September 2026

What turns a learning simulation into a meaningful learning experience? Explore seven practical questions to guide your design.

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  • Digital education reading group

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 14 September 202617 September 2026

How can we create a sense of care, connection and belonging for students we may never meet? September’s Digital Education Reading Group explores what a more humanistic approach to asynchronous and digitally mediated learning might look like in practice.

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Building a learning simulation with generative AI: process and pedagogy

  • by Catherine Luck
  • Posted on 7 September 20267 September 2026

A learning designer shares how generative AI helped turn an idea for a financial management simulation into a working learning experience, and why learning design expertise remained essential throughout the process.

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  • Microcredentials

Microcredentials and the rise of the interdisciplinary learner 

  • by Julia Leong Son
  • Posted on 21 July 202621 July 2026

Our expanded portfolio of stackable microcredentials is helping reshape the future of flexible postgraduate education.

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  • Digital education reading group

Why are we still using discussion forums?

  • by Jonathon Thomas
  • Posted on 8 July 20268 July 2026

In this month’s reading group we ask – As AI transforms online learning, which discussion forums still serve a meaningful educational purpose and which have outlived their usefulness?

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  • Microcredentials

Authentic assessment in a modular world: designing for microcredentials

  • by Kirsty Branch
  • Posted on 30 April 202630 April 2026

Designing assessment for our microcredentials had been a challenge! Here we share practical approaches to creating on-demandc, scalable assessment that supports both academic rigour and real-world relevance.

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  • Digital education reading group

The Delivery Truck Always Rings Twice: Revisiting Clark, Kozma, and the Limits of the Delivery Metaphor

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 22 April 202622 April 2026

This month, we revisit the question: what difference, if any, does learning technology actually make? Drawing on Clark, Kozma, and key philosophical perspectives we consider its relevance in the age of AI and digital platforms.

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  • Learning design

Evidence-led course design: strengthening persistence in MOOCs

  • by kseniiavladimirova
  • Posted on 20 March 202620 March 2026

Drawing on learner data and practical use of AI tools, we share how redesigning our MOOCs improved engagement, persistence and course completion.

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  • Microcredentials

Microcredentials: designing lifelong learning at scale

  • by sambrenton
  • Posted on 2 March 202618 March 2026

How do you design lifelong learning at scale? This post explores how stackable credit, flexible student journeys, digital infrastructure and a federal model combine to turn microcredentials from policy aspiration into institutional practice.

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  • Microcredentials

Microcredentials: reimagining higher education for lifelong learners

  • by sambrenton
  • Posted on 23 February 202611 March 2026

With lifelong learning back on the policy agenda, we are introducing stackable microcredentials designed for flexible access, low-friction entry, supportive assessment and credit accumulation across working lives.

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