• What is learning design?
• Designing your learning
• Learning design
  framework
• Discrete learning designs
• Choosing the
  learning design
  1. Type 1: Task-directed
  2. Type 2: Task-guided
  3. Type 3: Task-autonomy
  4. Learning design outcomes
• RPL models
• Basic principles of
  online learning design
• Web 2.0 technologies
• Employability skills

Choosing the learning design

The Table below provides a guide for determining which of the three learning designs will suit a particular development. Using the table below, a designer can indicate where on the various continua the form of learning setting they are seeking would sit. By scoring the various positions 1-5 as shown, for each of the criteria, an aggregated score is obtained in the range 8-40 which will give an indication of the most appropriate learning design.

Determining which criteria suits your learning design

	Your score
	Task-directed		Task-guided		Task-autonomy
	1	2	3	4	5
Level of outcome	knowledge acquisition		understanding		problem-solving
Level of guidance	high		medium		low
Content focus	information		application		evaluation
Content application	procedural		interpretive		creative
Learner freedom	low		medium		high
Learning form	practising		choosing		designing
Learner preference	teacher-centred		working with others		student-centred
Engagement	reading, browsing, watching, describing, reviewing		comparing, planning, questioning, seeking, organising		investigating, inquiring, analysing, evaluating, synthesising