If you ever want to witness the full spectrum of human passion, schedule a meeting with an academic about their Canvas module. Within minutes, you’ll see love, pride, anxiety, perfectionism, panic, and joy — sometimes simultaneously. And honestly? That’s what makes the work enjoyable. Instructional designers don’t exist to “fix” academic content. We exist to translate it — to turn deep disciplinary knowledge into learning experiences that make sense to students who won’t have

Alt text: Young woman wearing assistive visual technology. sits with a colleague at a computer There’s an expression in the accessibility world: “If you design for disability, you design for everyone.”  And once you’ve worked in higher-education learning design for more than five minutes, you realise how true this is. We often think of accessibility as a checklist — colour contrast, keyboard navigation, captions, alt text, transcripts. All critically important, yes, but still

Alt text: A time-poor academic, stretched between work and study, wrestling with digital platforms There’s a strange paradox about good digital learning. When it’s done well, it feels simple. Clean. Obvious. Almost as if it assembled itself overnight while the learning designer was out walking the dog. Unfortunately — and every instructional designer knows this — simple is the most labour-intensive aesthetic imaginable. Behind every “effortless” Canvas module lies a design ec

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