Rob Hubbard

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Grand designs: How to be inventive with your learning design

Rob Hubbard

For example; writing this article is a form of design – the problem I am trying to solve is how to transfer ideas from my head into yours. My delivery method isn’t new (a blog article) but hopefully some of my message will be. It is my belief that great design underpins any form of creation.

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Top 10 Tools for Rapid eLearning

Rob Hubbard

Thanks to Rob Hubbard, Louise Cox and Ed Hickman for their input into this article. SmartBuilder - a great and underrated elearning author tool specifically designed for building branching scenarios. It’s got a decent scripting language too.

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Breaking Down Barriers Between Learning and Doing

Rob Hubbard

We might read an article, watch some YouTube videos, ask someone’s advice or attend a course online or in person. As humans we understand that we learn skills best by doing, by thinking about what went well and how we could improve, and by trying again, and again, and again.

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Back to Basics – What is eLearning?

Rob Hubbard

Learning resources can include things like web articles. Whereas we already know how vital interactivity is in learning, passive learning resources definitely have their place. When I want to know something, the first places I’ll look are Google, Wikipedia and YouTube. Videos, podcasts, PDFs, screencasts etc.

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You (Probably) Have the Technology

Rob Hubbard

Hopefully this article has helped you see just how much you can do with low-cost tools and that much of it can also be mobile-accessible. Wikis and collaborative docs – letting people collaboratively work on a document allows them to share ideas, see other people’s contributions and build on them. Now go forth and have a play!

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Learning Design : What can we learn from creativity in the arts

Rob Hubbard

In researching creativity in the arts further, to see if there was anything else we, as learning designers, could learn from it, I stumbled across this article on the Guardian website from 2012. They asked a number of artists from a range of disciplines how they find creative inspiration.

Design 40
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The Advantages of Building Curiosity into Learning and 7 Ways to Do It.

Rob Hubbard

This article on lifehack.org, sums it up nicely: Curiosity makes your mind active instead of passive. He emphasises the importance of not doing something ‘as we have always done it’ but to question and challenge the status quo. But why is curiosity so important in learning? This is why…. It makes your mind observant of new ideas.