Making learning engaging
Following are a few learning design projects designed at the University of Essex.
For adult learners, learning isn't as instinctive as it is for younger ones. thus, it becomes imperative to make the learning on point, frictionless and engaging.
These were designed on the Articulate platform and hosted on Moodle.
Client Name
University of Essex
Learning Design
Visual Storytelling
Iconography
Illustration
Motion Design
Active bystander training
The course explores the realities of harassment and violence, examines why people choose to intervene, or not and equips learners with practical tools to be an active bystander.
Target audience - staff, students and anyone who visits the campus for any job, especially frontline staff.
Client: Equity Diversity Inclusion Team
A third-party video was added right at the beginning of the course to engage the audience and draw them in.
The original in-person workshop was adapted for an online course. So instead of asking learners questions we provided them data and prompted them to think about it.
Visuals were always meant to support the voiceover and not compete with it so that the learner can concentrate on what is being said.
Iconography was used to convey different concepts and build the storytelling to make the ideas more inclusive to different kinds of audiences compared to photographs.
In-person group activity was turned into a knowledge check as a way to help the learners to retain information rather than test them.
Silhouettes of people were used in illustrations instead of giving them specific features to avoid stereotyping as these were not examples of specific actual incidents.
This showreel of multiple clips, as a glimpse, is from the actual presentation designed for the course.
Visa types and support available at Essex
The resource was meant to help staff to understand what support is available in terms of sponsored visas at the University. The brief was to design an interactive step-by-step process.
Target audience – Managers and staff.
Client: Resourcing Team
The initial content from the client wasn't very structured so I collaborated with them on Miro to co-create the structure of the information that would inform the tool.
The final design was a simple, easy-to-use, interactive tool for users to navigate and find the information they needed.
A universal metaphor of a passport/document was used to bring in a visual element to the tool.
The content was also included as text after the interactive tool to make it accessible to different kinds of preferences.
This time it was more structured.
This is a quick walkthrough of the resource.