This 12-week course takes a design-led perspective on the creation of online or digitally-mediated courses in a range of settings – including formal, informal, workplace and other learning contexts. On Course Design for Digital Environments, you will explore how to approach course design in a designerly, well-theorised and critical way. There will be opportunities to:

  • Understand and analyse a range of design approaches and contemporary design challenges.
  • Discuss and question what makes a course, and what makes it 'digital'.
  • Explore your own design needs and aspirations, and those of your learners, colleagues or other participants.

There are many current debates about course design (and the social, cultural, and political implications contained therein), and a really fascinating range of design contexts and challenges for us to explore and be inspired by. So, this is an interesting time to be considering what is important for online course design.