Ensuring Technological Plurality through effective Learning Design
1. Ensuring Technological Plurality
through effective Learning Design
Simon Paul Atkinson
Associate Dean for Teaching Enhancement, Scholarship and Research
BPP University
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2. ContextsContexts
Student ProfileStudent Profile
Learning
Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes
Media ChoicesMedia Choices
Assessment
Design
Assessment
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
EvaluationEvaluation
History
Victoria University of Wellington -
NZ
(1998-2001)
Open University – UK
(2001-2003)
University of Hull
(2003-2008)
Massey University –NZ
(2008-2010)
LSE
(2010-2011)
BPP University
(2011-)
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3. ContextsContexts
Student ProfileStudent Profile
Learning
Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes
Media ChoicesMedia Choices
Assessment
Design
Assessment
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
EvaluationEvaluation
Learning Design Process: modules and programmes in higher education contexts
OrientationOrientation
Personal ContextPersonal Context
Social ContextSocial Context
Discipline ContextDiscipline Context
4. Familiarity with
technology
Modeling and
developing skills
Assumptions about
knowledge media
Enabling Outcomes
StudentsStudents
Graduate /
Professional
Needs
Graduate /
Professional
Needs
Contextual FactorsContextual Factors
ContentContent Staff LiteracyStaff Literacy InfrastructureInfrastructure
ContextsContexts
Student ProfileStudent Profile
Learning
Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes
Media ChoicesMedia Choices
Assessment
Design
Assessment
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
(TLA) Activity
Design
EvaluationEvaluation
Learning Design Process: media landscape
OrientationOrientation
Personal ContextPersonal Context
Social ContextSocial Context
Discipline ContextDiscipline Context
6. Teaching & Learning
Activities
Activities designed to
generate, enable or elicit the
active VERBS articulated in
the Intended Learning
Outcome
Activities performed as most
appropriate to context and
the ILO:
•Teacher-led
•Peer-enabled
•Self-managed
Assessment
Tasks
Tasks formatted to enable
student to demonstrate the
Active VERBS articulated in
the Intended Learning
Outcome
Tasks specified using criteria
allowing judgment to be
made on the level of student
performance.
Intended Learning
Outcomes (ILO)
Specify VERBS that
students must enact
Verbs suggest
progressively higher order
thinking skills according to
level.
Uni-structural
Multi-structural
Relational
Extended
Abstract
Simon Atkinson adapted from Biggs, J., & Tang, C. (2007).
Teaching for Quality Learning at University: What the Student does (3rd ed.). Buckingham. GB: Open University Press.
Constructive Alignment
7. Biggs & Collis SOLO Taxonomy:
Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome
Biggs, J., & Collis, K. F. (1982). Evaluating the Quality of Learning: Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome Taxonomy. New York:
Academic Press Inc.
8. Representations of Taxonomies of Educational Objectives)
COGNITIVE DOMAIN (Original)
Bloom, B. S. (ed.) (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, the
classification of educational goals – Handbook I: Cognitive Domain New York:
McKay