In this workshop you will work in a small team to design a collaborative online learning activity. You will have the opportunity learn about the principles involved, experiment with tools that can help you structure and analyse your ideas and learn from case studies of successful activities tried and tested on Open University modules. At the end of the workshop you will have produced an initial design which you can then develop further to be used in your online teaching activities.
This workshop has been created by the METISProject (http://metis-project.org/), and it is one of three workshop structures that heave been developed for different educational sectors across Europe. You will use several paper-prototyping tools and the Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE), a bespoke environment for the co-design of learning, developed by the Metis Project. The ILDE aims to support practitioners in completing the "learning design" lifecycle from conceptualising designs to deploying them in virtual learning environments (VLEs) for enactment and eventual redesign. In particular, you will use WebCollage, an online tool specifically designed to assist you in creating collaborative learning activities ready to run in a VLE. The overall design of this workshop is based on a meta-design template produced by the Metis project (Brasher & McAndrew, 2015) .
References
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Brasher, A., & McAndrew, P. (2015). METIS deliverable D3.4: Final workshops packages: workshops for different educational levels and education contexts
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How to design Collaborative learning activities
1. A hands-on workshop exploring tools and techniques for designing
successful online collaborative learning activities
http://www.mentis-project.org/
How to design Collaborative Learning activities
2. • Context
• Today’s activities
• Tools and techniques to support you
• Your knowledge
Our knowledge as facilitators
“Learning design is the act of devising new practices, plans of activity, resources and tools
aimed at achieving particular educational aims in a given situation” (METIS project, 2012)
Your goal: to design a collaborative online activity that will form part of your module
A1: Introduction
4. Two strands
1. How to represent teaching practice from a technical perspective in the
development and delivery of online learning environments;
and
2. how to represent teaching practice in an appropriate form to enable
teachers to share ideas about innovative online pedagogy and think
about the process of design.
Agostinho, S., Bennett, S., Lockyer, L., & Harper, B. (2011). The future of learning design. Learning, Media and
Technology, 36(2), 97-99. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2011.553619
A1: Learning design
6. A1: Overview of today’s activities
Conceptualize /
Re-conceptualize
AuthorImplement
Investigate / Re-investigate
Evaluate
Introduction
Work on/with ideas for design,
e.g. creation of representations of
design elements and their
interconnections, understanding
of the context and expected users
Produce a prototype: a detailed,
formal and reusable definition of a
learning design
Apply an authored learning
design using a specific VLE,
a particular group of
students and set of tools
9. • The ILDE is located here http://ilde.upf.edu/ou
– Login using your username and password
• Design projects have been set up for you:
– DD103 Investigating the social world - Block 3
– DD103 Investigating the social world - Block 4
– DE200 Investigating Psychology 2
A1: Using the ILDE
10. 1. Individually, write down 3 (or more ways) to ensure that an
activity you are designing will fail! Write each on an individual
Post-It (5 minutes);
2. As a team, place all your Post-Its on a sheet of A1 paper and
structure them in a way that seems useful (e.g. by themes or
arrange into a map) (10 minutes);
A2: How to ruin a collaborative learning
activity (15 minutes)
11. What are the barriers and challenges of collaborative learning from a
learner’s perspective?
ILDE Heuristic Evaluation template
• Technical challenges?
• Motivational challenges?
• Temporal challenges?
• Other challenges and barriers?
Personas
A3: Heuristics for collaborative learning
(25 minutes)
Examples of heuristics
12. 1. Individually, think about how you would avoid ruining a collaborative learning activity.
Write down 2 or more heuristics (guidelines or ‘rules of thumb’) that a collaborative
activity should adhere to for your particular teaching and learning context.
Write each heuristic on a separate Post-it. (5 minutes)
2. Collaborate with the others on your team by placing your Post-Its on an A1 page.
Arrange them in some order or map, and identify a few key guidelines or heuristics
that you believe a successful collaborative learning activity should follow.
One member of the team should add the heuristics to your Heuristic Evaluation page
within the ILDE (15 minutes)
3. Each team will then present its heuristics to the whole workshop. Please focus on
describing the key heuristics as you will only have 3 minutes to present! (10 minutes
in total)
A3: Heuristics for collaborative learning
(25 minutes)
ILDE Heuristic Evaluation template
Personas
Examples of heuristics
13. • Describe your vision for a
collaborative learning
activity.
• Focus on describing the
effects the activity is
intended to have on the
learners.
A4: Conceptualize learning outcomes (40
minutes)
14. The Learning Outcomes view is a
notational view which shows how
the learning activities and
assessment tasks are aligned with
the intended learning outcomes of
the course or module. The view is
informed by Biggs’ work on
Constructive Alignment (Biggs,
1999). The premise behind this
model is twofold:
• Students construct meaning from
what they do to learn
• The teacher aligns the planned
learning activities with the
learning outcomes
Biggs, J. (1999). What the Student Does: teaching for enhanced
learning. Higher Education Research & Development, 18(1), 57-75.
doi: 10.1080/0729436990180105
A4: Learning Outcomes View
15. • Describe your vision for a collaborative learning activity. Focus on describing the effects
the activity is intended to have on the learners.
Learning outcomes view
1. Listen to the introduction to the Learning Outcomes View and this activity (2 minutes)
2. As individuals, each write down one or more learning outcomes for a collaborative
learning activity, each on a separate Learning Outcome Post-it. (Make use of supplied
verbs). (3 minutes)
3. As a team, collaborate to choose and refine one or more learning outcomes that your
activity will produce (10 minutes)
4. As individuals, each write down one or more outputs a learner could produce to show
that they have reached one or more of these outcomes. Use a separate Learner Output
Post-it for each output. (5 minutes)
5. As a team, collaborate to choose and refine the definition of the learner outputs (10
minutes)
6. As a team, collaborate to produce a Learning Outcomes View on an A1 sheet of paper,
illustrating the relationships between learners' outputs and learning outcomes (10
minutes)
A4: Conceptualize learning outcomes (40
minutes)
16. • Describe your vision for a collaborative learning activity. Focus on
describing the effects the activity is intended to have on the learners.
Learning outcomes view
Learning outcome verbs and phrases
particularly relevant to collaboration
analyse, build on, co-create, contribute, debate with,
discuss with, engage with, enhance, improve on, motivate,
perform, share
……..and any others you can think of
A4: Conceptualize learning outcomes (30
minutes)
17. 1. Listen to the presentations about the case studies and patterns. Whilst doing so,
think about if and how they could be applied to your teaching (35 minutes)
2. As individuals, think about which features of the examples and patterns could
be applied to your teaching context and used to support your learners reach the
learning outcomes you specified in Activity 4 “Conceptualize: Learning
outcomes”.
• Keep in mind the heuristics, and ways to ruin an activity you identified
earlier.
• Pick one or more of the patterns or case studies, and for your chosen one(s)
write down “pros” on green Post-Its, and “cons” on red Post-Its and attach
them to the relevant print out. (5 minutes);
3. As a team, use the annotated print outs as prompts to discuss and agree on
features of the patterns and examples that you can make use of.
Nominate a note taker to describe the pros and cons and other features you
think will be useful. There is a Google Document within your team’s project in
the ILDE for this purpose. (20 minutes).
A5: Evidence, examples and patterns of
collaborative learning (60 minutes)
ILDE Google Document
18. A5: Evidence, examples and patterns of
collaborative learning (60 minutes)
ILDE Google Document
Use the ‘Notes on examples and patterns’ document within your ILDE project
to describe the pros and cons and other features you think will be useful
20. A6: Conceptualize: Storyboard
(45 minutes)
1. Listen to the introduction to the Storyboard view (5 minutes);
2. Collaborate to layout your storyboard (25 minutes);
Issues/questions to think about include:
a. Which parts of the activity should be synchronous, and which should
be asynchronous?
b. Which pattern(s) can be used to help support your planned
collaboration?
c. Which tools have the right affordances for your activity?
Remember to reflect on the heuristics you created in Activity 3 and use
them to guide your design. (You can also check it against other teams’
heuristics in the ILDE).
3. Present your storyboard to the workshop (15 minutes, about 5 minutes
per team).
21. • A prototype is a way of demonstrating how a design will work.
Not the final product, but enough to clarify the functionality and technical issues for meeting the
user requirements.
• Author: Use WebCollage to produce a detailed, formal and reusable prototype of a learning design
(by Daniel Y. Go) (by Zach Hoeken)
WebCollage
A7: Author - using WebCollage
(45 minutes)
22. A7: Author (45 minutes)
1. Listen to the introduction to WebCollage (10 minutes);
This introduction will demonstrate some features of WebCollage.
2. Given that there is limited time available for this activity, you may
want to select a portion of your storyboard to author – the facilitators
will help you with this. (5 minutes);
3. Use WebCollage to select the pattern that is most relevant to the
storyboard. (5 minutes);
4. Customise the pattern to produce the first stage authored sequence.
User of WebCollage thinks-aloud during creation while other
participants feed in suggestions based on role. (15 minutes);
5. Note any issues related to your role in the Google document within
your team’s ILDE project (5 minutes);
6. Finalise the WebCollage prototype for presentation. (10 minutes)
24. Heuristic evaluation originates in usability research, as a technique for
early formative evaluation of digital systems. A team of experts is
asked to assess a particular design using a given set of heuristics or
“rules of thumb”.
• a low-fidelity rapid evaluation which often uncovers design flaws at
an early stage.
• a group of experts “walk through” the evaluated system as if they
were users (learners) engaged in a typical activity.
• The experts use a set of design heuristics - “rules of thumb” against
which they are asked to assess their experience.
A8: Heuristic evaluation (35 minutes)
25. Heuristic evaluation guidance Heuristic evaluation template
Other team’s design Other team’s heuristics
1. As a team, select a view or representation of your design that summarises its features. For
example, you could choose WebCollage’s ‘Summary View’, or your Storyboard (5 minutes);
2. Make your chosen representation available to another team, i.e. display the selected ILDE view
on your team’s monitor or display the storyboard (5 minutes);
3. One group from your team should carry out a heuristic evaluation of another team’s design,
using the heuristics provided, and bearing in mind all the heuristics identified in this
workshop. Fill in the scoring sheet within the heuristic evaluation document to summarise your
findings. . (10 minutes)
4. Each group of evaluators will present its evaluation to the workshop
(you will have about 5 minutes per group, so lead with the most important points)
(15minutes)
A8: Heuristic evaluation (45 minutes)
26. A9: Wrap up (15 minutes)
http://www.itd.cnr.it/Metis/questionnaire.html
28. (Photo by
Daniel
Slaughter)
Slides put together by Andrew Brasher, with help from Patrick McAndrew, Yishay Mor, Christopher Walsh,
Rebecca Galley, Simon Cross. Based on templates prepared by the Metis Project.
McAndrew, P., Brasher, A., Prieto, L., & Rudman, P. (2013). METIS deliverable D3.3 Pilot workshops: workshops for different educational
levels. Retrieved 1/7/2014, from http://www.metis-project.org/resources/deliverables/METIS_D3-3.pdf
Brasher, A., Walsh, C., McAndrew, P., & Mor, Y. (2013). METIS deliverable D3.2: Draft of pilot workshop. Retrieved 27/9/2013, 2013,
from http://www.metis-project.org/resources/deliverables/METIS_D3-2.pdf
Hinweis der Redaktion
How to design Collaborative Learning activities by Andrew Brasher, The Open University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
The workshop today is about designing a learning design workshop on collaborative learning for your learners. You we will participate in a sequence of activities in which you will bring your expertise about the context in which you teach, and we will support you as we introduce you to some tools and methods which will help you design
Context = the project, history of LD at the OU, design as a science vs practice.
Building on experience of OU learning design experience and experience of partners. The learning design tools and workshops will be evaluated in three contexts:
HE represented by the OU, vocational training represented by KEK ΕUROTraining , and non-formal training represented by Agora.
ΕUROTraining SA is a Vocational Training Centre specialising in the sectors of Finance & Management, IT and Tourism. The centre’s seminars are aimed at people wishing to upgrade their qualifications and abilities in the labour market.
The Association of participants Àgora is a non-profit making organization of adults who do not have any academic degree and is dedicated to the non-formal training of lifelong learners, especially those who are socially excluded, i.e. people coming from scholastic failure, immigrant people, elder people, disabled people, etc. It was created in 1986 to cover the lack of educational and cultural services addressed to these collectives in the neighbourhood. Àgora provides a daily educational setting for about 1600 participants, more than 120 volunteers and four hired staff. It offers a wide range of activities, including language learning, basic literacy, ICT training groups and dialogic literary circles among many other workshops. Àgora acts in METIS as user group focused on adult education.
Instructions, resources and tools to be used
This time line shows projects which focus on learning design as a whole. Learning design has been implicit in many other OU initiatives and projects.
See also Timeline of Leaning design in the Larnaca declaration: https://larnacadeclaration.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ld-timeline.png
Introduction
You will be working in groups, focusing on the needs of learners and teachers for a particular context.
Typical design cycle, based on the Learning design studio approach (Mor & Mogilevsky, 2012)
Investigate the context that you are designing for: technical, physical, temporal constraints, nature of learners and teachers (you will use personasExamine teaching approaches that have worked in the past in similar contexts, chose an approach
Conceptualize In these activities each team will describe their vision for collaborative learning for the context they are focusing on (e.g. Science level 2 students, FBL level 1 students). This is a first draft, and it may be modified during the workshop.
Author In this activity, each team will produce a prototype, adding details to the their conceptualised vision. The prototype is not the final product, but enough to clarify the functionality and technical issues for meeting the user requirements.
ImplementProduce a runnable version of the activity in a specific VLE.
EvaluateCarry out a heuristic evaluation using the checklists produced during the ‘Investigate’ phase.
Then use the results of your evaluation to revise your design and start the cycle again.
References
Mor, Y., & Mogilevsky, O. (2012). A Learning Design Studio in Mobile Learning. Paper presented at the 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012), Helsinki. http://oro.open.ac.uk/34995/
Authoring tools include WebCollage, an online tool for authoring collaborative learning activities, and you will be using this later in the workshop. WebCollage allows the production of detailed learning designs which are ready to use with learners.
The workshop today is about designing a learning design workshop on collaborative learning for your learners. You we will participate in a sequence of activities in which you will bring your expertise about the context in which you teach, and we will support you as we introduce you to some tools and methods which will help you design
Design projects have been set up for your faculty or module groups.
Facilitators present overview of activity, and introduce the course map and learning outcomes view (10 minutes).
Describe your vision for a collaborative learning activity. This is a first draft, and it may be modified during the workshop. Focus on describing the effects the activity being designed is intended to have on the learners.
Use a Learning Outcomes View to help structure your discussions and describe your vision. You can use the Learning Outcomes View to describe the activity you will implement. If time is available, you can develop a Module Map to describe the module it will fit into. However in most case we do not think there will be enough time to develop a module map, so for the purposes of the workshop knowledge of the module will be largely knowledge that is tacit within a team or discussed verbally.
Slide shows images of a portions of 2 Storyboards The Storyboard on the left hand side has been created using CompendiumLD, and the one on the right hand side has been crreated using OULDI post-it notes on paper.
Demonstration of WebCollage followed by participant activity, i.e. use WebCollage to construct a prototype of the conceptual design produced in activity A6.