trish moore

Introduction

We live in a world that is ever-changing and interconnected, whether it is in the natural world or online. Welcome to my Learning Design Website; my name is Trish Moore and I am a Learning Designer. As you explore the site, you will find my introduction, my philosophy of learning design (see below), recent work (at the bottom), a video introduction, portfolio, services, and contact information brought together in this ePortfolio.

Philosophy of Learning Design

Digital online learning has quickly become the learning space of the 21^st Cen­­tury. Before Covid-19, there were approximately 16.8 million students enrolled in degree-granting post-secondary programs (NCES, 2017). Out of that number, there were 6,651,536 students enrolled in distance learning education (NCES, 2017). That is, almost 40% of the students enrolled in the degree-granting post-secondary program are online learners in the U.S. alone. Since March of 2020, there are even more people utilizing online learning. 98% of institutions moved from face to face to online learning. (Bastrikin, 2020)

What makes the online experience relevant to today’s learners? In the words of Alvin Toffler (1970), “The illiterate of the 21^st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” What online education affords a learner is a place in which they can explore the material at their own pace, through examination and reexamination with sufficient feedback and guidance. While at the same time allowing for exploration and influence from the environment from which they are located. Then integrate that with others from very different backgrounds and ways of seeing the world. Students in the 21^st Century learns through discovering new material based on their prior knowledge and reflecting on the latest information they have learned.