Learning Design in Practice

  • Course Date: 30 June to 10 August 2025
  • Location: Hybrid online and in person event
  • Time: Thursdays: 16.00-18.30, online, block week 7th-11th of July 2025: 9.00-16.00, face-2-face
  • Duration: 6 weeks
  • Application Deadline: 23 June 2025

About the course

This course takes an experiential approach to learning design. Participants undertake a collective learning design process, selecting from common learning design activities and models to design a response to a learning problem.

Course content

  • Week 1: Orientation and onboarding
  • Week 2: Immersive LD experience (block week)
  • Week 3: Application of LD model in context
  • Week 4: Application of LD model in context
  • Week 5: Application of LD model in context
  • Week 6: Consolidation and assessment

Learning objectives

​​​After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify a learning problem or opportunity;
  • Have a thorough understanding of their design context and the participants they are designing for;
  • Develop learning outcomes;
  • Apply and/or facilitate a learning design process following selected models; and
  • Develop a learning design plan.

Course cost

The full cost of the course is R5500 with discounts available as follows:

  • When enrolling 5 or more participants, participants are entitled to 10% discount.
  • UCT staff are entitled to a 30% discount i.e. R3850. 
  • All current full-time postgraduate students from any institution are entitled to a 50% discount i.e. R2750. 
  • HELTASA members are entitled to a 10% discount i.e. R4950.

NB: Please request a discount voucher code from: pgbold@uct.ac.za BEFORE you enrol for the course.

More information

Blended and Online Learning (BOLD) short courses

13 seats available.
Price: R5,500.00