ALT Webinar:
The Art and Science of Learning
Design
Valérie Emin-Martinez, Helen Walmsley, Michael
Derntl, Liz Masterman, Luis P. Prieto, Yishay Mor,
Caroline Greves, Martin Hawksey
Supplement 1, 2013 - The art
and science of learning design
http://goo.gl/vqwVo6
9 papers, 22 authors
Learning Design?
“devising new practices, plans of activity,
resources and tools aimed at achieving
particular educational aims in a given
situation.”
Mor & Craft, 2012
http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/19196/
html
Isn’t that what we call teaching?
Yes, but
The practice of education is invisible
Design knowledge is tacit
Educators are “Lone rangers”
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Need to share, critique, remix
Practice
Language
Tools
Practice
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Epistemic practices (how we learn)
Pedagogical practices (how we teach = how
we enable others to learn)
Design practices (how we support better
pedagogical / epistemic practices)
Language
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How do we represent practices?
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Textual
Graphical
Computational
How do we talk about design?
How do we connect with other fields of
knowledge?
Tools
To allow us to
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Author
Manipulate
Share
Improve
Remix
Implement
.. Our design knowledge
The Learning Design grid
http://www.ld-grid.org/
STELLAR Network
of Excellence
Theme team
Resources
Workshops
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ASLD workshop
http://www.ld-grid.org/workshops/ASLD11
Designing and evaluating
representations to model pedagogy
Liz Masterman & Brock Craft
The grand challenge: Language
– How do we define the key concepts in a precise and coherent manner?
– How do we present them to practitioners in an intuitive and accessible
form?
→ ‘Epistemic efficacy’: fitting representations to…
– Learning design concepts and relationships
– The task of design
– Reasoning and ‘problem-solving’
– Characteristics of users
…in a tool that is easy to learn and use
Peterson, D., (ed.) (1996) Forms of Representation:
An interdisciplinary theme for Cognitive Science, Intellect, Exeter.
Learning Design Rashomon
II: exploring one lesson
through multiple tools
Luis P. Prieto and Michael Derntl
The Art and Science of Learning Design Webinar
The main idea
• Wrap-up the technological tools for learning design
available
→ companion “Rashomon I” for conceptual tools
• Goal: aid researchers and practitioners in choosing the
tool that best fits them
• How? Look at a learning design from different
perspectives
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Use different tools to model a rich technology-enhanced learning
scenario (inquiry-based learning, based on nQuire)
Analyze differences, difficulties encountered, etc.
The tools
• Learning designer (for teachers, formal learning
concepts, visual analytics)
• CADMOS (for teachers, design courseware and enact
in learning platform)
• Web Collage (for teachers, collaborative learning
activities, design through patterns)
• ScenEdit (for teachers, design blended learning
scenarios, emphasis on intentions)
• OpenGLM (see next)
Example tool & solution: OpenGLM
OpenGLM = Open Graphical Learning Modeller
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Open source toolkit for visual IMS Learning Design authoring
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Connects to open repositories on the Web:
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Open ICOPER Content Space (OICS)
METIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE)
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Offers design templates
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Target audience: experienced learning designers (terminology, design/runtime abstraction,
etc.)
Issues:
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Made for computer-managed
learning environments
Cannot represent physical artifacts &
devices
Granularity of activities unclear (esp.
with multiple roles)
plus issues for non-IMS LD experts
Discussion
• Some results of comparing the different “perspectives”
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Different tools for different audiences (teachers, designers)
Different tools for different pedagogical specialties (collaborative,
online, blended)
Difficulties in modelling physical resources
Different ways of going to the implementation of the design (manual,
via IMS-LD, via GLUE!-PS)
• No “silver bullet”, rather ecosystem of tools for different
purposes
Current and future directions
• METIS project (EU Lifelong Learning Programme)
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First steps into supporting this ecosystem and communities of teachers
designing and sharing through different tools
• METIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE)
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Web Collage, OpenGLM, CADMOS, many conceptual tools supported by
ILDE
Source code and interfaces will be open for other tools to be included
Instantiation on various VLEs via GLUE!PS
Recently completed pilot workshops successfully
ScenEdit and ISiS principles will be integrated in the new
version of the LMS Claroline
ilde.upf.edu