Short courses in learning design

Dear colleagues and students

The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) invites the University of Cape Town (UCT) staff and postgraduate students to enrol in three flexible, online short courses designed to strengthen your learning design practice. These short courses are available on UCT’s The Learning Store.

These courses are part of the Blended and Online Learning Design (BOLD) short course programme and can be taken individually for professional development or stacked towards the Postgraduate Diploma in Blended and Online Learning (PG BOLD), which will be offered from 2026.

Now open for registration:

Introduction to Learning Design

Explore emerging trends in learning design and locate yourself in learning design as a practice and area of research.
Date: 9 June–20 July 2025
Mode: Fully online

• Register for Introduction to Learning Design.

Learning Design Practice

Experience hands-on skills and strategies for designing meaningful and accessible learning experiences. Build your own backpack of learning design practices to create responsive and stimulating learning designs.
Date: 30 June–10 August 2025
Mode: Blended (One week in-person followed by online sessions.)

• Register for Learning Design Practice.

Learning Design Models

Learn to apply key instructional design models to shape effective, student-centred learning environments.
Date: 7 July–17 August 2025
Mode: Fully online

• Register for Learning Design Models.

For queries, please email pgbold@uct.ac.za.

• Learn more about the BOLD short course programme.

Sincerely

The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching

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