Learning Design the future for elearning

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Learning Design- the future for e-learning?

• Mark Barrett-Baxendale, Learning Technologies
  Research Group, IBITE

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Overview

• Learning Design
• What is Learning Design?
• The IMS LD specification
• The LTRG Learning Design project
• Demonstration

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Learning Design
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Learning Design

• The design and management of learning activities
• Meaningful sequencing/structuring of activities
• Emphasis is on activity rather than content
• Intended to capture teaching/learning practice

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IMS-Learning Design

• Based on EML (Educational Modelling Language)
• Describes a variety of pedagogical models or
  approaches, online
• Theatrical Play metaphor
• Play, Act, Roles, Role-parts, activities,
  activity structures
• Students/staff are assigned to a run of the
  Learning Design and to roles

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IMS-Learning Design

• Carry out activities that link to environments
  (learning objects and services)
• Supports individualisation of learning
• Supports re-use
• Works with other e-learning standards
• E.g. IMS Content Packaging

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Learning Design activities

• Central to LD
• Learner or support activities
• Individuals or groups assigned to activities
• Set completion criteria, e.g. when all learners
  have completed the activity

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Learning Design Activity Structures

• Organise the activities
• Sequence or selection
• Activities can be revealed in a meaningful way
• Can nest activity structures build complex
  structures to reflect many pedagogical models

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Example What is Greatness?

• From www.unfold-project.net
• Screenshot from Reload LD editor
• Activities and activity structures

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Example What is Greatness?

• The Play brings everything together
• Role parts join roles to activities and activity
  structures

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Problems

• New and complex specification
• Very few practical examples
• Software to edit and run IMS Learning Design is
  in its infancy

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Conclusion yes or no?

• Yes
• Rich specification capturing many pedagogies
• Full IMS LD implementation available- CopperCore
• Works with other e-learning standards

• No
• Complex specification
• Currently software is crude

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The LTRG Learning Design project

• SLiDe

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Project team

• Mark Anderson
• Mark Barrett-Baxendale
• Paul Hazlewood
• IT Services

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What is SLiDe?

• SLeD Integration Demonstrator
• Demonstrating a JISC funded e-learning toolkit in
  a live institutional context
• SLeD?
• Service-based Learning Design
• Service-based?

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Service-based

• One of a set of tools to fit into a
  service-oriented architecture
• http//www.elframework.org

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ELF framework

• The notion of bricks of functionality that
  communicate via (web) services
• SLeD is the Activity Management brick

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What we will do

• Implement IMS Learning Design in a real HE
  context
• Technical and user evaluation

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Why ?

• Two key outcomes
• Evaluate the software (installation, usability)
• Evaluate the utility of IMS LD
• Also wider advantage of SOA- systems working
  together

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Demonstration

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