Update on conceptual learning design tools
A number of things appear to becoming together - at least in my mind! - in terms of working towards a coherent set of conceptual learning design tools. I’ve blogged about lots of this before, but thought this post would be useful in terms of bringing some of this up to date. Interesting these ideas are currently spanning a number of projects/research work I am involved with. Clearly this work fits in terms of the overall ideas about adopting a learning design-based methodology and the associated tools/resources/activities to support this. Institutionally this work is currently being driven through our Course Business Models work. Externally aspects of this are feeding into the Design-Practice project we have with Cyprus and Greece and the X-Delia project on financial decision making. Below is a powerpoint presentation showing five conceptual design views of a ‘learning intervention’ - this could be something like an informal learning iphone app (as in this example) or a formal educational course or programme.
The five views are:
- Learning intervention overview (or Course map view)
- Pedagogy profile
- Course dimensions
- Task swimlane
- Learning outcomes map
I talked about some of this in detail in a recent networked learning paper and associated powerpoint presentation (Cloud on Cloudworks on the seminar this was part of is here). I think what is exciting about this is that the five ‘views’ give you a means of thinking about a learning intevention at different levels of granalarity and different aspects.
We have particularly made significant progress in the last few weeks I feel on the course dimensions view. I had an excellent brainstorming session on this last week with Mick Jones (who is leading the next phase of our Course Business Models work), Barbara Poniatowska and Kevin Mayles (who are involved in a related project on e-learning data. We have an internal workshop with staff from across the faculty on Friday to get their views on the work to date, how it might be used/improved and how it can be taken forward.
I used the views this week in a brainstorming session with Gill Clough (who is the lead reseacher on our part of the X-Delia project) in terms of trying to map a learning intervention for an i-phone games app about financial decision making. The views worked surprisingly well. The powerpoint presentation with the five views is below, thoughts welcome!
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May 26th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Hi Grainne
Great to see this work all coming together and the cross project links. Simon gave an overview of the different views at the curriculum design programme meeting the other week in Birmingham and there was lots of interest. I think all the projects are now realising the need for a variety of views. Hopefully we can pick this up at the design bash in July too.
Sheila
May 27th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Fantastic Sheila, sorry I wasn’t able to be there and yes I feel it is all coming together and that the set of views is very powerful. See also my latest post articulating a learning design taxonomy. I have also started to play with representing this in Cohere - see http://cohere.open.ac.uk/node.php?nodeid=8269731370313561001274955161&start=0&max=20&orderby=date&sort=DESC&direction=right&filtergroup=&filterlist=&netnodeid=&netq=&netscope=&focalnode=8269731370710387001274955163#conn-neighbour
Not sure I totally get cohere yet, but potentially very powerful and could be an interesting visual front end for cloudworks in terms of showing guided pathways through clouds or making connections across clouds.