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Finding My Voice as a Future Learning Designer

Communication has always been an important part of my professional life, but my understanding of what it means has changed significantly over the past few years. During my previous role in higher education administration in Sri Lanka, I viewed communication primarily as providing information, answering questions, and helping students solve academic and administrative problems. Since beginning my master’s degree in Learning Design and Technologies at Arizona State University, I have come to realize that communication is much more than sharing information. It is about understanding learners, building trust, designing meaningful experiences, and ensuring every learner feels included. This shift in perspective has encouraged me to reflect on both my strengths and the areas where I still have room to grow as I prepare for a career in learning design. My Communication Strength: Active Listening Of the four communication areas, active listening is the one I feel most confident in. During my y...
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Reflecting on My Growth as an Evaluator

  When I first started this course, my understanding of evaluation was quite limited. I mainly thought of evaluation as analyzing data and producing a report at the end. I did not fully recognize the depth of planning, collaboration, and decision-making involved in the process. However, over the duration of this course, my perspective has changed significantly. I now understand that evaluation is a structured and meaningful process that involves designing studies, working with stakeholders, interpreting evidence carefully, and ensuring that findings are useful for decision-making. Based on my current self-assessment, I would place myself around a level 4 to 5 on the 1–6 scale. While I am not yet at an expert level, I feel much more confident and capable than I was at the beginning of the course .   To clearly summarize how my competencies changed from the beginning to the end of the course, I have included a summary table below. Looking at my self-assessment results, one of t...
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What Will Online and Blended Learning Look Like in Ten Years?

  When I think about the future of online and blended learning, I do not imagine just better platforms or smarter tools. I imagine institutions making intentional, courageous design decisions. As someone preparing to lead the development of online learning, my vision is shaped both by my experiences in Sri Lanka and by what I have studied in this program. In Sri Lanka, I witnessed how quickly institutions moved online during times of disruption. Lectures were uploaded, recordings were shared, and LMS platforms became central. But interaction, feedback, and purposeful design were often limited. At the time, it felt like innovation. Now I understand it was mostly digitization. As Ko and Rossen (2017) argue, moving a course online requires more than transferring content; it requires thoughtful instructional design. That realization has fundamentally changed how I think about leadership in online learning. In ten years, I believe online and blended learning will look like integrated ...
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