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, 2012http://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”

Need to share, critique, remix

Practice

Language

Tools

Practice

• 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

• How do we represent practices?o Textualo Graphical o Computational

• How do we talk about design?• How do we connect with other fields of

knowledge?

ToolsTo allow us to • Author

• Manipulate

• Share

• Improve

• Remix

• Implement

.. Our design knowledge

The Learning Design gridhttp://www.ld-grid.org/

STELLAR Network of Excellence Theme team

• Resources• Workshops

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 toolsLuis P. Prieto and Michael Derntl

The Art and Science of Learning Design Webinar19 Nov 2013

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 perspectiveso Use different tools to model a rich technology-enhanced learning

scenario (inquiry-based learning, based on nQuire)o 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: OpenGLMOpenGLM = Open Graphical Learning Modeller• Open source toolkit for visual IMS Learning Design authoring• Connects to open repositories on the Web:

o Open ICOPER Content Space (OICS) o METIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE)

• Offers design templates• Target audience: experienced learning designers (terminology, design/runtime abstraction,

etc.)

Issues:● 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”

o Different tools for different audiences (teachers, designers)o Different tools for different pedagogical specialties (collaborative,

online, blended)o Difficulties in modelling physical resourceso 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)

o First steps into supporting this ecosystem and communities of teachers designing and sharing through different tools

• METIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE)o Web Collage, OpenGLM, CADMOS, many conceptual tools supported by

ILDEo Source code and interfaces will be open for other tools to be includedo Instantiation on various VLEs via GLUE!PSo Recently completed pilot workshops successfully

• ScenEdit and ISiS principles will be integrated in the new version of the LMS Claroline ilde.upf.edu