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
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.)
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
For queries, please email pgbold@uct.ac.za.
Sincerely
The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching
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