Ever heard of the ‘nerd shivers’? This is what a learning experience designer gets when it comes to solving wicked problems around how people learn, what drives them to learn more and what environment they learn best in. We pride ourselves in our ability to find balance between opportunity and learner needs while finding innovative learning solutions through iterative cycles of exploration, research, testing and rapid prototyping. This requires a ‘design’ mindset that considers learners first and values connecting people and bringing them together around simple tools that allow for co-creation, a variety of opinions, testing and iteration. It is a mindset that is open to rejection, generating insights and learning from our mistakes.

Engage others in the process. You'll need to expand past the immediate design team and run your 'darlings' past the appropriate people to make sure you have the right systems, support and infrastructure in place to actually pull it off! Depending on the structure of your institution, this includes (but is not limited to) the Faculty or Professional Development department, Learning Support, the Library, Digital Learning Support, Scheduling and the Registrars Office.