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‘Have nothing in your library that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’, William Morris might have said.\u00a0 In our library we have a copy of the Decretals of Gratian, printed in 1472, which was reputedly the favourite printed book of its owner, Morris himself.<\/p>\n

With a movement towards open practice in higher education the topic of learning design in technology enhanced education seems to have become popular again.<\/p>\n

“Learning design is the practice of planning, sequencing and managing learning activities, usually using ICT-based tools to support both design and delivery.”1<\/a><\/p>\n

Are our online courses useful and beautiful?\u00a0 Much discussion at ALT, helpful JISC guides, <\/a>toolkits , <\/a>OER materials <\/a>and some new tools <\/a>in the space<\/a>. It’s time to spend some time looking at the art and craft.<\/p>\n

If we can be transparent about what we are doing we can reproduce the elegant elements.\u00a0 If not, it’s curtains for us.<\/p>\n

Jisc Learning Design Studio<\/a> say the benefits of following learning design process are:<\/p>\n