ALT Webinar: The Art and Science of Learning Design Valérie Emin-Martinez, Helen Walmsley, Michael Derntl, Liz Masterman, Luis P. Prieto, Yishay Mor, Caroline Greves, Martin Hawksey

Supplement 1, The art and science of learning design 9 papers, 22 authors

Learning Design? “devising new practices, plans of activity, resources and tools aimed at achieving particular educational aims in a given situation.” Mor & Craft, html

Isn’t that what we call teaching? Yes, but The practice of education is invisible Design knowledge is tacit Educators are “Lone rangers”

Need to share, critique, remix Practice Language Tools

Practice Epistemic practices (how we learn) Pedagogical practices (how we teach = how we enable others to learn) Design practices (how we support better pedagogical / epistemic practices)

Language How do we represent practices? o Textual o Graphical o Computational How do we talk about design? How do we connect with other fields of knowledge?

Tools To allow us to Author Manipulate Share Improve Remix Implement.. Our design knowledge

The Learning Design grid STELLAR Network of Excellence Theme team Resources Workshops

ASLD workshop

Designing and evaluating representations to model pedagogy Liz Masterman & Brock Craft

The grand challenge: Language –How do we define the key concepts in a precise and coherent manner? –How do we present them to practitioners in an intuitive and accessible form? → ‘Epistemic efficacy’: fitting representations to… –Learning design concepts and relationships –The task of design –Reasoning and ‘problem-solving’ –Characteristics of users …in a tool that is easy to learn and use Peterson, D., (ed.) (1996) Forms of Representation: An interdisciplinary theme for Cognitive Science, Intellect, Exeter.

Learning Design Rashomon II: exploring one lesson through multiple tools Luis P. Prieto and Michael Derntl The Art and Science of Learning Design Webinar 19 Nov 2013

The main idea Wrap-up the technological tools for learning design available → companion “Rashomon I” for conceptual tools Goal: aid researchers and practitioners in choosing the tool that best fits them How? Look at a learning design from different perspectiveslearning design oUse different tools to model a rich technology-enhanced learning scenario (inquiry-based learning, based on nQuire) oAnalyze differences, difficulties encountered, etc.

The tools Learning designer (for teachers, formal learning concepts, visual analytics)Learning designer CADMOS (for teachers, design courseware and enact in learning platform)CADMOS Web Collage (for teachers, collaborative learning activities, design through patterns)Web Collage ScenEdit (for teachers, design blended learning scenarios, emphasis on intentions)ScenEdit OpenGLM (see next)OpenGLM

Example tool & solution: OpenGLM OpenGLM = Open Graphical Learning Modeller Open source toolkit for visual IMS Learning Design authoring Connects to open repositories on the Web: oOpen ICOPER Content Space (OICS) oMETIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE) Offers design templates Target audience: experienced learning designers (terminology, design/runtime abstraction, etc.) Issues: ●Made for computer-managed learning environments ●Cannot represent physical artifacts & devices ●Granularity of activities unclear (esp. with multiple roles) ●plus issues for non-IMS LD experts

Discussion Some results of comparing the different “perspectives” oDifferent tools for different audiences (teachers, designers) oDifferent tools for different pedagogical specialties (collaborative, online, blended) oDifficulties in modelling physical resources oDifferent ways of going to the implementation of the design (manual, via IMS-LD, via GLUE!-PS) No “silver bullet”, rather ecosystem of tools for different purposes

Current and future directions METIS project (EU Lifelong Learning Programme)METIS project oFirst steps into supporting this ecosystem and communities of teachers designing and sharing through different tools METIS Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE)ILDE oWeb Collage, OpenGLM, CADMOS, many conceptual tools supported by ILDE oSource code and interfaces will be open for other tools to be included oInstantiation on various VLEs via GLUE!PS oRecently completed pilot workshops successfully ScenEdit and ISiS principles will be integrated in the new version of the LMS ClarolineLMS Claroline ilde.upf.edu