The Architecture of Learning: A Framework

The Architecture of Learning is a six-part framework for designing learning experiences that move beyond content delivery toward deep learning and transfer. Organized around Rationale, Theory, Sensemaking, Application, Transfer, and Reflection, the framework brings together research on learning, professional knowledge, relational practice, and instructional design. Developed in response to a rapidly changing educational landscape shaped in part by artificial intelligence, it offers educators a structure for designing learning experiences that help learners make meaning, apply knowledge, transfer understanding to new contexts, and reflect on their learning.