Dr Clive Young is an educational technologist specialising in learning design.
He retired as the Head of Programme Development at University College London in June 2023 and formerly taught as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University for a decade. He directed a wide range of institutional, national and international projects exploring the potential and practicalities of technological and organisational change.
Clive’s professional interests are institutional change models, media pedagogy and learning design. He has spoken regularly at UK and European conferences and events and was an expert external evaluator for the European Commission.
Clive co-developed the popular ABC learning design method, now used in many universities and colleges worldwide. ABC is a popular and effective rapid design method for developing university-level programmes, modules and short courses. Created at UCL in 2015, ABC enables academic teams to collaborate in short, focused workshops to co-create visual storyboards of students’ learning journeys. Its ease of use, adaptability, and open licence have led to widespread adoption across the UK and Europe. More…
ABC ‘train the trainers’ workshop at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, July 2023
Clive is the lead editor of ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond, due to be published in April 2026. The publication introduces ABC to a new audience, adding insights from institutions that have localised and implemented the method in diverse contexts.
He is available to run bespoke ABC workshops (on-campus or online) and ‘train the trainers sessions’ on the method. Contact Clive
Many more videos and a complete ABC Toolkit available from ABC-LD.ORG.