Industry engagement: Part 1

This unit provides you with the opportunity to employ the knowledge and skills from previous units in an authentic context. You will be supported to find a learning design mentor who you will observe and interview over a period of time. A key focus for this industry engagement is the personal and interpersonal skills required to manage tasks and to work productively with others.

Learning designers commonly work in teams made up of other designers as well as media, marketing, technology and other specialists. As a learning designer, you, will need to be able to develop productive and trusting relationships with content experts and, in many cases, with the educators and trainers who are directly interacting with the learners. This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop the interpersonal skills and strategies that learning designers need to succeed.

In addition to a period of industry engagement, the unit will explore team dynamics, conflict resolution, managing expectations, clarifying tasks, running design meetings, and influencing without power. You will develop skills in workshopping ideas with others, as well as interviewing stakeholders, such as content experts, to elicit key details.