The JISC Design for Learning Experience: perspectives on creating, developing and

sharing designs for learning

Sheila MacNeill, Assistant Director, JISC CETIS

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Overview

Starting at the end Some reflections of sharing and creating from JISC

Design for Learning Programme Potential areas for future developments

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JISC Design for Learing Programme

“Designing for Learning (with a practitioner planning focus on e-Learning) explores the process of designing, planning, sequencing or orchestrating learning tasks which may include the use of e-Learning tools.”

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy.aspx

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JISC Design for Learning Programme

2 year programme 14 projects in total (including

support and evaluation) Projects covered areas from

conceptual modeling to implementation and evaluation

Wide range of outputs and technologies (blogs, wikis, podcasts, word-docs, LAMS etc)

http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - support project wiki Design Levels diagram,(developed by Helen

Beetham)

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How/can we share learning designs? Support Project Task: “provide and support a common means of

accessing and re-using learning designs and exemplars that emerge from the programme”

How ?

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Solution Simple - not building a learning design repository Flexible and extensible Exploiting social bookmarking and mash-up technologies Integration with any number of other infrastructures (e.g.

specialized repositories) which could store actual resources Resources just needed an url reference Linking bookmark store (del.icio.us ) to a community website

(support wiki) which can render a newsfeed

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In reality http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Shared_Resources2

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e-Framework SUM (service usage model)

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Future developments Further exploration of light weight integration solutions with other

sites/systems e.g. OU Cloudworks (http://www.slideshare.net/grainne/lams-keynote)

Further tool development - ReCourse, widgets etc More design bashes Workflow Develop confident communities which encourage tagging,

folksonomy development and/or vocabularies Investigate use of semantic technologies Learning design is part of wider curriculum design process - more

linkages with institutional systems & processes

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Thanks and contact info

Programme wiki: http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page SUM article:

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/wilbert/2007/10/10/the-e-framework-social-software-and-mashups/

eFramework:http://www.e-framework.org/

Email: s.macneill@strath.ac.uk

Thanks to Lisa Corley, Wilbert Kraan, Helen Beetham