Learning design
For the last couple of years, I have increasingly come across the words learning design. Superficially it appeared to me just another name for instructional design or perhaps instructional design underwent a branding exercise and is now reborn as learning design. However, on scratching the surface I found that there are differences, subtle differences perhaps but differences nonetheless. So, what is learning design and how is it different from instructional design? Actually, before we get to that let's think about what does a design do? A design aims to solve a problem for the user by taking in consideration the user's requirements. Think of interior design - It is a solution for how you want your home or office to be given your life/work style. Furniture design aims to solve a problem for the targeted users. And so on and so forth. So, learning design is about providing solutions to learning requirements of the learner. But isn't that what we do in instructional des