Unveiling Rosenfeld’s newest book, Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning
Want to motivate and engage those glassy-eyed, fatigue-stricken remote learners? The ones who’ve been inundated with virtual classes since 2020? Say hello to the ultimate game-changer: Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning, a new Rosenfeld Media book release by Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer.
Whether you’re new to the world of online instructional design or you’re an old pro looking for some exciting new engagement strategies, Design for Learning can guide you towards creating a captivating, student-centered virtual learning experience that’s anything but dull.
Addressing the challenges of online learning and online course design
It’s no secret that the rise of screen-based learning brought challenges to students and teachers alike. The New York Times recently reported on a fall 2020 survey by Strada Education; it found that nearly three in 10 students said their ability to learn was much worse online than in person.
So what can course instructors do to support remote learners and help them to stay on track? Design for Learning has the answers.
What will you gain from reading Design for Learning?
In this brand-new book from online-teaching experts Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer, you’ll gain insider info on building your online learning space and keeping your virtual charges alert, engaged, and eager to learn more.
Teachers, learning development professionals, and anyone tasked with designing an online course (or a one-off class or workshop) will learn how to apply industry best practices to their virtual classroom, tackling such areas as:
- Incorporating text and audio
- Planning and producing videos
- Recording sound and voice-overs
- Facilitating live webinar presentations
…and much more!
What readers say about Design for Learning
Angela Gunder, Chief Academic Officer at the Online Learning Consortium, says, “I found myself nodding, grinning, and cheering as I poured through the chapters, as Cohn and Greer’s personalities sparkled within the prose, bringing their humanity and heart to our broad work in education.”
Meet the experts behind Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning
Design for Learning co-author Dr. Jenae Cohn writes and speaks about online teaching for international audiences, serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley, and has designed resources for teachers, facilitators, and coaches on ways to improve learner engagement online. She is the author of the book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading (2021).
Co-author Michael Greer is an independent writer and editor who has taught online courses in writing, editing, and multimedia, and has served as founding editor of the journal Research in Online Literacy Education. He writes about user-centered design, interactive media, and digital publishing.
See for yourself: Take a look inside the book
There’s no doubt you have an invaluable wealth of knowledge in your field, but are your virtual lessons resonating with your students as well as they could be? With Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning, you’ll be sure to advance your virtual instruction to the next level.
Want more? Check out a sample chapter (Chapter 1) for a snippet of what’s in store.
Becoming a changemaker: 3 takeaways from 3 designers of change
In an increasingly complicated environment filled with volatile dilemmas, how do we engender change? According to Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland, authors of Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World, this requires leading with design.
In their invaluable book, Giudice and Ireland speak with changemakers across different disciplines to gain insight into the interplay between design and leadership. Here are three takeaways about creating change—each from one of the design world’s most influential leaders:
John Maeda, VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, says to lead with clarity
“I’ve always tried to build a culture based on Kim Scott’s concept of radical candor. This doesn’t just mean being transparent. There’s transparency and then there’s clarity. I’m always driving toward clarity in roles and relationships and accountabilities.” Read more
Liz Ogbu, Founder + Principal of Studio O, argues that sometimes you may need to be the one who changes the system
“[Changemaking is] not accepting the status quo as the complete answer. My job is never to come in and say, ‘I’m going to do it the way it has always been done.’ I often come in with the premise that the way it has been done has not been good for everybody, and part of my mission is to make sure that everybody is done right by whatever we accomplish. So basically, that means that I’m often in a position of having to make change, and of having to adapt the system to achieve that goal.” Read more
Doug Powell, Former VP of Design at IBM, emphasizes that temporary setbacks are just that—temporary
“It might slow a team down when they are initially adopting and developing the behaviors and practices. That middle manager who is so resistant early on is thinking ‘Oh my god, it’s going to take two months for my team to really figure out how to do this well.’ But then once everything’s in place, then you’re going to be on a glide path and you’re going to be flying.” Read more
Want to learn more about becoming a changemaker and leading with design? Dive into Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World, available in paperback and all common ebook formats. You can also listen to authors Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland interviewed on The Rosenfeld Review podcast here.
The DesignOps Summit Conference Program is Now Live!
The DesignOps Summit’s three-day main program (October 2-24) is now available. Don’t miss out on the premier annual event for people who lead design operations and teams. We’ve selected a lineup of diverse, talented speakers, and a variety of talks centered on our three themes.
- DesignOps is Changing: The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, layoffs, and now the explosion of AI… These global trends are directly impacting design organizations; we’ll cover what they mean and how they change the way you’ll practice DesignOps in the months and years to come.
- DesignOps is Practical: From design systems and documentation to AI tools and DE&I practices, we’ll address the approaches and techniques that you can and should adopt to impact your organization right away.
- DesignOps+: DesignOps is more than scaling and maximizing efficiency. We’ll dig into the human side of DesignOps, from nurturing your career and lifting up your team, to improving collaboration and growing a more inclusive DesignOps profession.
If you’re thinking of attending, keep in mind that our early bird registration deadline is August 15. Groups of three or more get 25% discount when registering concurrently (enter code GROUP).
Enterprise UX 2023 Conference Materials are Available
If you attended our recent conference, Enterprise UX 2023, head over to the program page to view the videos, sketchnotes, slides, resources, and session notes! If you didn’t attend, you can also get access to these materials by purchasing the recordings.
Podcast: Changemakers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland discuss their new book
Authors Maria Giudice & Christopher Ireland join Lou to discuss their new book, Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World, which comes out on January 17.
Get a taste of what they cover in the book, from systems thinking to navigating change, and how to look broadly at patterns to understand the context in which you are establishing change. The authors explain the wide range of industries they drew from in their research and interviews, as well as the highly emotional aspect of changemaking in society today. Bonus: they share some tools you can use to become a changemaker.
Maria recommends: The Knowledge Project podcast – interviews with an eclectic range of people. Host Shane Parrish is one of the best interviewers Maria has ever heard!
Christopher recommends: Non-profit Interact Project, which provides free design education to kids in underserved communities.
This week: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering
Bill Scott, veteran of Yahoo! and Netflix and author of O’Reilly’s Designing Web Interfaces, tackles interface engineering in our next live webinar, scheduled for 1-2pm EST this Thursday, February 26.
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Mobile Design Strategy: Don’t Make This Mistake
On September 12, our next event, The Mobile UX Summit, is coming to your virtual office! We’ve asked Josh Clark, Brad Frost, Theresa Neil, Greg Nudelman, Jason CranfordTeague, and Mike Fisher for 27 tips and 2 case studies on designing mobile experiences. You’ll walk away with new mobile UX insight and skills, get some questions answered—and the session recordings are included with your registration.
This week we talked to Greg Nudelman about an important mistake to avoid in mobile design strategy:
Greg Nudelman: I think one huge mistake people make is to assume that by using a simple app porting service they can turn an iOS app into an Android app. While this may work for some games (well… sometimes… and sort of), the same assumption FAILS for any content or search-driven apps in most other categories. The truth is there are about one million apps in each of the app stores (Android and Apple) so the competition is fierce in every category.
There is simply no substitute for knowing the OS conventions and using some of the basics as the anchor to start your mobile design. And OS formats are changing rapidly—witness nothing less than fundamental changes in both leading mobile platforms from Android 2.x to 4.x and Apple iOS 6 to iOS 7. And if you do decide to break the app conventions, it helps to know them first—that’s where design pattern books can be of help; books like Theresa Neil’s Mobile Design Patterns Gallery (O’Reilly Media, 2012) and my own Android Design Patterns (Wiley, 2013) are great resources. So to succeed with your mobile app, you will need to:
- Understand the conventions of the OS you are building for
- Start with a simple paper or sticky notes prototype to allow yourself to explore various design directions, fail quickly and cheaply and iterate rapidly
- Test early and test often to make sure the app uses the appropriate patterns and meets your customers’ needs and does so in an original, intuitive and delightful way
Good luck and see you at the Summit!
Sign up now to reserve your virtual seat at our Mobile UX Summit on September 12!
Podcast: Design Beyond Devices—Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences with Cheryl Platz
Cheryl Platz—Rosenfeld Media author, emcee of our Advancing Research and Enterprise Experience conferences, puppeteer, and Principal UX Designer at Gates Foundation—shares the inspiration that drove her new book Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences (due out in late 2020). If you’re an interaction designer, you’ll want to listen as Cheryl dramatically expands our understanding of one of interaction design’s final frontiers.
Cheryl recommends:
- Wired for Speech by Clifford Nass and Scott Brave
- Follow Cheryl on Twitter
- Get updates on her new book
Podcast: Making Conferences More Accessible with Darryl Adams, Intel’s Director of Accessibility
With the surge in popularity of, and need for, hybrid and virtual events, Lou sits down with Intel’s Director of Accessibility, Darryl Adams, to discuss how technology can make in-person and virtual conferences more accessible and inclusive to speakers and audience members with disabilities. He also speaks to how accessible conference design can be improved and fine-tuned for speakers with disabilities, and help those without disabilities feel more comfortable presenting. What kind of accessibility principles and design factors should conference hosts consider for audience members with disabilities and those without disabilities when setting up for in-person and virtual events? How does this technology increase engagement and diversity in attendance? Listen as Darryl and Lou touch on all these topics, and more.
Darryl recommends: Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
Darryl Adams is the Director of Accessibility at Intel.?Darryl leads a team that works at the intersection of technology and human experience helping discover new ways for people with disabilities to work, interact, and thrive. Darryl’s mission is to connect his passion for technology innovation with Intel’s disability inclusion efforts to help make computing and access to digital information more accessible for everyone and to make Intel an employer of choice for employees with disabilities.
Community Videoconference: Leading through the long tail of trauma
Please join our free Advancing Research community or Enterprise Experience community for access to the recording. You’ll receive a welcome email with a Dropbox link to our archive of past calls.
The fatigue and trauma from events of the past few years has affected many of us – not just personally, but also professionally, and at the organizational level as well. For the most part, the corporate world has recognized the impact these past years have had on employees and teams. However, many organizations have only recently become aware of the longer-term effects and are struggling to support their people as they work through the long tail of trauma
In this special community call, produced in partnership by Rosenfeld Media’s Advancing Research and Enterprise Experience curation teams, Uday Gajendar will facilitate a discussion about the long tail of trauma, with Rachael Dietkus, LCSW, Dawn E. Shedrick, LCSW, and Dr. Dawn Emerick.
They will cover:
• What it means to be a “trauma-informed leader”
• Ideas to keep in mind when handling stressful/anxious events or circumstances with your team
• Differences in supporting people during an event and its immediate aftermath, vs in the long tail of trauma
• Specific actions you can take with your team
Please register to join us via Zoom on July 13th at 11am ET and learn more about the long tail of trauma, how it can affect your organization, and what steps you can take toward a sustained and intentional strategy for leading your team through long-term, post-pandemic challenges. The panel will be recorded, but we will turn off the recording for audience Q&A.
The speakers:
Rachael Dietkus, LCSW
Rachael is a macro-focused clinical social worker focusing on trauma-conscious practices in design. She is the founder and Chief Compassion Officer for Social Workers Who Design, a consultancy focused on integrating ethical understanding and trauma-conscious approaches in design. She is a two-time alumna of UIUC, where she studied Sociology and Social Work.
Dr. Dawn Emerick
Dr. Dawn Emerick is a speaker, trainer, and coach, focused on trauma-informed leadership. She’s a LinkedIn Learning instructor, a 2021 TEDx Jacksonville speaker, and host of the Leadership Uncensored podcast. Over a span of 30 years, she crafted her leadership, organizational development, and engagement skills at various private, government, and non-profit organizations in Florida, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and Texas.
Dawn E. Shedrick, LCSW
Dawn Shedrick, LCSW-R, is the founder and CEO of JenTex Training & Consulting, a professional development company that offers continuing education training; leadership development training and coaching; and consulting to the human services, healthcare, and social justice sectors. Dawn has also designed and delivered mental and emotional wellness and LGBTQ inclusion seminars in corporate workplaces including Travelers Insurance, JP Morgan Chase, GE, The NY Mets, Office Depot, GlaxoSmithKline, National Grid, Columbia University, and Canon USA North American Headquarters. She has delivered trainings to in-person audiences throughout the United States and abroad in Canada, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, and China and has created interactive virtual learning events for global audiences.
Uday Gajendar (Co-curator, Enterprise Experience Community)
Uday is a Design Manager for Aurora Solar who specializes in next-gen innovation projects and “three-in-a-box” product development with business and engineering leads. He also regularly writes for ACM Interactions and speaks worldwide on design topics at SXSW, UX Australia, IxDA, Midwest UX, and other venues. You can read Uday’s thoughts on design at his blog and on Medium.
