1. Enhancing learning through good design Tom Boyle Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) London Metropolitan University ICT 2010, Singapore July 1 2010
3. Everthing has been thought of before, The difficulty is to think of it again Goethe
4. Learning in a period of rapid and repeated change that affects both the means and goals of learning What should be learned…? What changes and what remains deeply the same ..? … How do we foster this learning?
5. Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world Archimedes
6. Where do we stand in order to apply these levers in education? What knowledge and skill do we need? Levers A place to stand ICT provides the levers to move the world of the 21 st century We need a deep and sound pedagogical base to ground ourselves in the use of the new technologies
7. How can we enhance learning through design that effectively uses ICT?
8. Different levels at which design for learning can be focused ( Autodesk Model)
Problems of representation Sandra Wills – role play scenarios – two page descriptions
Allow ‘digital lessons’ to be run online Create lesson plan using built in tool palette Run the lesson online Monitor activity and progress of students as they work through the activity sequence Powerful open source tool, that is well supported and has its own international community of practice Requires the commitments to set up and run the online lessons Free with extensive online support http://www.lamscommunity.org/
Alan Masson Blended learning: often vaguely described as a combination of traditional face-to-face and online teaching Blended learning design should be pedagogically driven. The nature and scale of the blend should be determined by an analysis of the range and nature of the problems faced by learners. Each components and the relationships in the blend are designed to systematically tackle these problems/issues To produce an overall solution that makes a measurable impact on student performance
Pedagogical designs are represented as ‘plug-in’ patterns to the an Authoring tool. The tool can be used to create specific learning objects based on the chosen pattern. Each of these learning objects can be adapted by local tutors (or learners), using the same tool, to meet their local needs and preferences. All these learning objects run as Web based learning objects.
Learning objects are instantiations of learning designs Accessibility and usability by tutors
Need to move away from reusable design in isolation
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.