Bootcamp

Learning Design Bootcamp 2022

The Bootcamp in 2022 will focus not only on supporting university teams in curriculum design for online and blended learning delivery but also in guiding and supporting the teams selected in the design and implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in their curriculums supported by the CoDesignS ESD Toolkit.

ENGLISH AND SPANISH HOSTS

The Learning Design and ESD Bootcamp will be delivered in English and Spanish in 2022. We are honoured to have the American University of Sharjah co-hosting the Bootcamp in English with The Open University and Anglia Ruskin University in parallel with UNESCO IESALC hosting the Bootcamp in Spanish.

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Learning Design Bootcamp 2021

We were honoured to have the Learning Design team from The Open University leading the Bootcamp in 2021.

The opportunities that the Learning Design Bootcamp offers to academics and learning technologists/educational developers in Higher Education was more relevant than ever before. The pandemic forced the move to online learning with some institutions better prepared than others to face the challenges of quality online learning design and delivery. The Bootcamp that year provided an opportunity to engage with experts and facilitators in the area of Learning Design focusing on key themes:

Student journey
Learning Design
Evaluation and
Quality

The teams selected in 2021 were from the UK, Ireland, Iceland and the United Arab Emirates:

Bloomsbury Institute London
The University of Warwick
University of Wolverhampton
Regent’s University London
Newcastle University
University of East London
Reykjavik University
The National University of Ireland Galway
Letterkenny Institute of Technology
American University of Sharjah
Mohammed Bin Rashid University Of Medicine and Health Sciences – Dubai

Learning Design Bootcamp 2020

The Call for proposals for the Learning Design Bootcamp 2020 was closed on 31 January 2020.
The teams selected are from the following universities:

Keele University
University College London
St George’s, University of London
Aberystwyth University
Exeter University and
University of Surrey

The Bootcamp 2020 will be launched on 17 May. The face to face meetings will be hosted by our winning team from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Learning Design Bootcamp 2019

The Learning Design Bootcamp 2019 offered an intensive three months programme for UK Learning Technologists and academics engaging in the design and development of a 15 or 30 credit module of their choice.

Why a Learning Design Bootcamp?

The Learning Design Bootcamp aims to inspire and empower Learning Technologists, Learning Designers and academics from different disciplines to acquire a Learning Design mind-set, to communicate and connect with mentors and coaches, and finally to aspire for creating value and innovative Learning Design solutions for UK Higher Education institutions.

When did the programme start?

The Learning Design Bootcamp Call went out in March 2019. Four teams were selected from the following universities:

The University of Warwick
Manchester Metropolitan University
University East London
Solent University

The teams were supported by mentors in the design and development of their modules following the CoDesigns Learning Design Framework.

The programme started in May 2019 and ended in July 2019.

What did the Bootcamp involve?

The Bootcamp started with an intensive day hosted by Dr Julie Voce – Head of Educational Technology, Learning Enhancement and Development at City, University of London in May 2019. During the Bootcamp, the teams designed and developed their modules supported remotely by their mentors with clear deadlines.

At the end of the Bootcamp, the teams attended a final day in which they presented their final designs, as well as the final module developed in their university’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

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Tim Neumann, Lecturer in Education & Technology and head of the UCL Institute of Education’s Learning Technologies Unit, was invited as guest speaker. He delivered an inspiring lecture talking about the Learning Designer as a tool to enable sharing of and communication about designs.

Tim Neumann – Lecturer in Education & Technology and head of the UCL Institute of Education’s Learning Technologies Unit

He discussed how designs can be taken forward within an organisational context, for example in terms of QA and costs, without unnecessarily restricting the variety of teaching methods and design frameworks.

A panel of experts evaluated the final designs and developments and the best team received a prize.

The activities and experiences of the teams will be followed by the Bootcamp research committee members and documented. The findings after the Bootcamp will be shared at different Learning Technology forums including ALT-C 2019, ALT Online Winter Conference 2019, Advance HE, among others.

The teams are expected to provide feedback to the organising committee in relation to their involvement and experience in the programme.

The parallel research project will be governed by the ethics committee of one of the sponsor universities. Participants agreed to have their progress monitored and appraised, involving data collection, for the purposes detailed in the research ethics consent form to be provided at the beginning of the Bootcamp.

Who won the Learning Design Bootcamp 2019?

The team from Manchester Metropolitan University won the Learning Design Bootcamp 2019.

Eleanor Hannan and Steven Williams from MMU with Maria Toro-Troconis and Manuel Frutos-Perez receiving their award.

“The team showed a great level of engagement between the academics and the learning technologists and was a key strength in their presentation. The learning design aspects were clearly understood and demonstrated in the design of the module.”