Month: April 2019

Week 11 – What We Can Learn From iLearn and Anytown

Both iLearn and Anytown designed the interactions in a way that they were realistic. In iLearn the learner is give the role of a middle school principal who must communicate digitally because injuries (broken legs) prevent him/her from going to the school. In Anytown, the learners are given the...

Week 8 – Understanding by Design & Group Design Project

The Understanding by Design framework, sometimes called Backwards Planning or Backwards Design, is not a model in that it doesn’t provide a practical methodology for implementation. However, it does provide guidelines to help the designer or educator focus their learning activities on the outcomes that are desired. That perspective...