ceti s This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Developing IMS Learning Design Tools Design for Learning start-up meeting, Birmingham 24 May 2006

ceti s Overview The session Challenges and opportunities in implementing IMS Learning Design –Authoring –Runtime –Sharing Units of Learning The goal: providing a means of capturing, exchanging and running teaching practice

ceti s The session –An example: Collage etc. –Constructing2Learn, University of Oxford map to or expand the challenges list –Supporting practitioners in producing IMS Learning Designs, Liverpool Hope University map to or expand the challenges list –Developing for Learning Design, The Open University map to or expand the challenges list –Designing for learning in a practice-based institution – Ravensbourne College map to or expand the challenges list

ceti s Authoring How to find the sweet spot between power and simplicity Interactive Brainwriting

ceti s Authoring How to please most of the people most of the time, or; finding the right representation (metaphor)

ceti s How to talk to a tool Runtime Learning design runtime systemConference system Conference: JaneScribe JennyParticipant AlanParticipant SamParticipant

ceti s How to direct an LD performance Runtime Conference: JaneScribe JennyParticipant AlanParticipant SamParticipant Learning design runtime systemConference system STOP!

ceti s Sharing Units of Learning How to decontextualise the context-bound Learning design runtime system Conference: JaneScribe JennyParticipant AlanParticipant SamParticipant

ceti s Sharing Units of Learning What do you exchange and how do you describe it –Unit of Learning with or without resources? –Which vocabulary to use to describe: pattern educational level of the unit pedagogic approach etc.

ceti s The goal allow university instructors to describe the instructional approach, thus allowing them to more easily share and reuse with their colleagues