The purpose of the internship is to learn by doing. Students complete 90 hours of project-based learning in a workplace context. Students take ownership of project-management and project-production as they adapt to the people and contexts of learning design & technology in the real-world.
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Agency students past and present. Our blog authors sharing their experiences and insights.
As the haggard warriors approached the dark, cavernous lair, they could just make out the labored breaths of what appeared to be a...wait...not that kind of D&D...let me explain. As I pondered my experience thus far in my Learning Agency internship for the Behavioral Health...
When I started my internship, I was ready. I had ideas, energy, and a strong desire to contribute. I used the Smithsonian's Curriculum in my classroom for years and I had a rolodex of ways to improve it based on best practice research and my experiences in the...
Insights from my first experience as a member of an instructional design team
Learning Agency project (BHA Course Build) completed for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the Behavioral Health Administration.
My understanding of instructional design (ID) is that it's a blend of many technical aspects – including learning theory, multimedia applications, and assessment design – but beneath the surface, it's deeply human work, and this project has shown me that.
The program is fantastic—supportive, full of resources—but by the time I found out about it, it was already getting late in the game. I needed something to start in January, not months later. Time was ticking, and I could feel the “you won’t graduate on time” clock counting down.
