Clive Shepard talks about informal learning and the idea of the learning architect in this interview on Purple Learning. The idea is that the learning architect is someone who designs environments for informal learning (which makes sense to me). This is very distinct from course design - people who create courses on design are "taking orders" rather than designing. They are not "professional" in the way an architect is. They have very definite expectations placed on them by their clients, they focus on formal courses, what they are expected to add is "quite limited". There is not much course designers can do in the context of their current to change that - their working environment may not welcome a change from course design to environment architecture. They have to develop their skills of the periphery. Start small.
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