Sometimes we forget that learners are real people. By and large, people prefer easy tasks to those that are hard. People want to be happy, and want convenience. Now we all know learning can be difficult, and technology, if planned and designed properly, can bring about those affordances. So, design with people in mind first, not technology. Robert O’Toole wrote a good post where he speaks of the need of design thinking in the development of digital learning. He reminds us to consider where the learner is starting from. Where they want to be. Then to consider what hurdles are between the starting and end points. It reminded me that our job, as learning technology practitioners, is to design, plan and select the right tools which enables the learner to traverse between the two points as smoothly as possible. I particularly liked the quote from Douglas Adams “[T]echnology is the name we give to things that don’t work yet“!

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Microsoft Teams is not a VLE, and perhaps should never become one.
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