Following my conviction that hiring a learning designer is the single most impactful thing any university can do to advance teaching and learning, I’d like to feature as many of these searches as ...

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. But one group is often ...

Whenever someone from the learning design community moves into an institutional leadership role, I take note. In this case, the story is close to home. My friend, colleague (and new boss) Erin DeSilva ...

If organizations want their learning and development efforts to produce results, they need to redesign the infrastructure ...

Generic AI tools weren't designed for learning. The future belongs to purpose-built, pedagogically informed tools with ...

If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that understanding the whole student matters. Since March of 2020, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of person hours have been spent enabling ...

In addition, Sass presented at the 2026 Digital Teaching & Learning Conference on Feb. 5, 2026, a fully virtual national ...

This graduate-level, introductory course provides an overview of the theoretical and practical foundations that inform learning, design, and technology. Course content and activities are designed to ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Design an explicit, three-part learning sequence: The learning sequence starts with a pre-visit phase, followed by an outdoor visit phase, followed by a post-visit phase. Each part of the sequence ...