1. An update on the
7Cs of Learning Design
Gráinne Conole
University of Leicester
11/1/2013

2. The 7Cs of Learning Design
Vision
Conceptualise
Activities
Capture Communicate Collaborate Consider
Synthesis
Combine
Implementation
Consolidate

3. Conceptualise
• Vision for the course,
including: Conceptualise
– Why, who and what you want to
design Course Features
– The key principles and Personas
pedagogical approaches
– The nature of the learners

4. Capture
• Finding and creating
interactive materials Capture
– Undertaking a resource audit of
existing OER Resource Audit
Learner Generate
– Planning for creation of Content
additional multimedia such as
interactive materials, podcasts
and videos
– Mechanism for enabling
learners to create their own
content

5. Communicate
• Designing activities that foster
communication, such as: Communicate
– Looking at the affordances of
the use of different tools to Affordances
promote communication E-moderating
– Designing for effective online
moderating

6. Collaborate
• Designing activities that foster
collaboration, such as: Collaborate
– Looking at the affordances of
the use of different tools to Affordances
promote collaboration CSCL Ped.
Patterns
– Using CSCL (collaborative)
Pedagogical Patterns such as
JIGSAW, Pyramid, etc.

7. Consider
• Designing activities that foster
reflection Collaborate
• Mapping Learning Outcomes
Los/Assessment
(LOs) to assessment Assessment
• Designing assessment Ped. Patterns
activities, including
– Diagnostic, formative,
summative assessment and
peer assessment

8. Combine
• Combining the learning activities
into the following:
– Course View which provides a Combine
holistic overview of the nature of
the course Course View
– Activity profile showing the
amount of time learners are Activity Profile
spending on different types of
activities Storyboard
– Storyboard: a temporal sequence Learning Pathway
of activities mapped to resources
and tools
– Learning pathway: a temporal
sequence of the learning designs

9. Consolidate
• Putting the completed design
into practice
Combine
– Implementation: in the classroom,
through a VLE or using a Implementation
specialised Learning Design tool
evaluation
– Evaluation of the effectiveness of
the design Refinement
– Refinement based on the Sharing
evaluation findings
– Sharing with peers through social
media and specialised sites like
Cloudworks