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ABC Learning Design is a collaborative programme and module design method created at University College London (UCL) in 2015 and now used widely across the sector to help develop new programmes and review existing provision.

ABC enables programme and module teams rapidly to develop a storyboard visualising the learner journey based on their activities through the course of study. The method is non-prescriptive and builds from the participants’ existing practice but can be used to identify opportunities for blended learning, to review assessment and feedback and align the programme to wider institutional priorities.

The key to ABC is pace, engagement and collaboration. ABC has been found particularly useful for new programmes or those changing to an online or more blended format. The approach generates high levels of engagement, and stimulates creative informed dialogue and group reflection about curriculum design among even time-poor academics. Change is a likely though not a required outcome as storyboarding the sequence and combination of activities as a peer group may also validate current designs and practices. Participants often report feeling more confident as teachers after an ABC session.

ABC is free! From 2015 to 2019 the ABC team introduced the method to many universities and colleges throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. Thousand academics and learning professionals participated in these sessions, filed-testing ABC a range of disciplines from medical sciences through engineering to education and social sciences. ABC was released as a free downloadable toolkit under a Creative Commons license with the latest version an outcome of a highly successful Erasmus ABC to VLE project.

Link to material: https://abc-ld.org/

Downloadable toolkit guides: https://abc-ld.org/abc-learning-design-toolkit-2020/, and resources Toolkit 2020 Resources – ABC Learning Design (abc-ld.org).