Midterm Digest | Spr '24

Hi. You're receiving this as someone related, adjacent, or interested in Learning Design & Technology @ CU Denver. Yes, we're a Masters Program but we're also a community of practice - thinking and tinkering with emerging pedagogies, ideas, and learning technologies. We are the Learning Agency @ CU Denver - a practicum of the Learning Design & Technology (LDT) program and these are our FieldNotes. We are currently working with a half a dozen clients around the Denver Metro area on real-world LDT projects - learning by doing.

We are not spam nor scam. We are simply exercising good pedagogy in showing our work. Should you not want to receive these occasional notes, let me know - brad.hinson@ucdenver.edu.

What If...

Sex-edu in 60 seconds. We just inked a deal with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) to produce a sexual education campaign on Instagram Reels. What if you were assigned this client/project - what would you do?

More cowbell. So, what if INTE6930: Learning Agency could repeat 3 or 4 times for 9-12 credits of field experience, each time with a different client, and it produced a certificate in experiential learning? And it paid for itself using client fueled scholarships. Hint. Hint. What say ye?

Multiplayer Learning. So, what if we produced a Games and Learning certificate consisting of 3 courses and based on learning-quests? Please see Keegan's project-opus, here.

Student Projects

Project: Savory Global Network

Navigating tight timelines: an LXD journey | My biggest obstacle with this project was meeting a tight six-month deadline while tackling content development and building the learners’ experience.

FieldNotesAshley Cox

Project: Past the Pandemic Adaptation

Course Adaptation: An Invitation to Reimagine Learner Engagement | A discussion on navigating the early process of adapting an asynchronous online course for a new learning platform and learner audience

FieldNotesStephanie Foster

Project: The ASAM Criteria Model

This blog post explains how the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along with an expert, worked together to create an online course about the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria model.

FieldNotesTony Thompson

Project: The Mandela Project

Mandela Fellows recorded audio of children’s books from their Sub-Saharan African homeland, with an aim as an ESL tool for African children learning English.

FieldNotesDanny Twieg

Project: Multiplayer Learning, Quests, and Community

Concept development for an LDT certificate centered on games & learning and framed with learning-quests.

FieldNotesKeegan Long-Wheeler

Invitations

Invitation: Ed3 Summit | Digital Storytelling

Work as a field reporter on behalf of the Learning Agency. Attend this virtual conference, gather insight, information, and news-worthy bits relative to Learning Design & Technology.

FieldNotesBrad Hinson

Invitation: LDT Copilot

Playing with a Generative AI bot for the LDT program.

FieldNotesBrad Hinson

Invitation: Side-Quest Lit Review

Invitation: Take a side-quest with this lightweight, collaborative literature review -an experiential demo of choice based learning.

FieldNotesKeegan Long-Wheeler

More thoughts, stories, and ideas

Unessay: Collaborative Mapping Model ~ Relationships Matter

This unessay explores a creative project & client journey through a Collaborative Mapping Model (CMM).

FieldNotesLaura Paciorek

Career: A Real-World Case Study for Getting Employed

My personal experience with The Learning Agency, reviewing opinions on if internships lead to employment, and exploring the 2024 job market for instructional designers and the learning & development community.

FieldNotesKatie Holloman

Syllabus

INTE6930: Learning Agency Internship COURSE SYLLABUS School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) University of Colorado Denver Resources * Learning Agency - Public Home Page * Project Scholarships - Some projects pay, some don’t. * Contributor Kickstart - Introduction to using this blog (Ghost) * Post Formatting - How to format your posts on

FieldNotesBrad Hinson

Thank You

Thanks for reading and/or scrolling this far. If you'd like to learn more about our work, enroll in the Agency, or hire the Agency please visit us and or drop us a line at learning.agency@ucdenver.edu.