Online learning doesn't fail because of technology. It fails when design is accidental.
Designing Learning on Purpose presents C3P2E, a practical framework for online and blended course design that brings together six core components:
- Content – clarifying what learners will actually know, understand, and be able to do, and building AURA-quality content (Accurate, Up-to-date, Robust, Applied).
- Communication – turning content into experience through CAUSE-designed activities (Clear, Active, User-friendly, Scaffolded, Engaging) and a balanced CAPS mix (Collaborations, Applications, Presentations, Self-Directed Learning).
- Evaluation – using LIE (Learning, Instruction, Environment) and "assessment of/for/as learning" to check whether learning is really happening-and why.
- Community – designing student-initiated and instructor-led learning communities, inside and beyond the LMS, to build social presence and persistence.
- Personalisation – using six types of learning data (content, activity, assessment, benchmarking, flagging, affective) to support differentiated paths and self-regulated learning.
- Promotion – treating value propositions, target segments, pathways, and partnerships as design decisions so courses are discoverable, relevant, and sustainable.
Grounded in constructive alignment, the Community of Inquiry, and adult learning theory, C3P2E is theory-informed but template-ready. Each chapter connects research to concrete design moves, examples, and checklists you can use immediately in your context.
This book is for instructional designers, lecturers, trainers, L&D and HRD professionals, and heads of academies who design or oversee online and blended learning-especially in professional, industry, and accredited programmes. If you want a shared language and a workable system for course quality, C3P2E will help you design learning on purpose, not by accident.
