Learning Design Support Environment

Draft

Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) is a project funded under the EPSRC/ESRC TLRP programme which builds on the LKL pedagogic planner (also called London Pedagogy Planner, a now dead project) - Daniel K. Schneider 10:31, 13 November 2009 (UTC).

According to Cloudworks, retrieved 10:31, 13 November 2009 (UTC), The system includes the following sections and things a designer can do:

• Pathways to designs for a session
• Can define: aims, prerequisites, duration, topics, learning outcomes, teaching methods, assessment, alignment – output validation document
• Provides numerous prompts, checking, opportunities for refining: for example check definitions of LOs via prompts (an ontology of learning outcomes), etc select LOs, Select learning activity sequence, define keywords for topics
• Can populate LAMS sequence 1 with content assets, preview, evaluate or edit learning sequence
• Could select a learning approach – didactic instruction, collaborative learning, inquiry learning etc
• Then type in a learning outcome – can search on existing set of outcomes to see which ones match
• Also want to be able to model the kind of searching tool that the teacher is using
• Experimenting with bringing these different tools together and making connects between them, a kind of scrapbook complier – can find existing resources and edit them and import into the LDSE tool and can annotate them:
  • Can link to an authoring environment for creating and editing learning objects such as the GLO tool
  • Can also drag in LAMS sequences
  • A link to some existing examples such as iKOPER sequences
  • Can link into and edit phoebe examples
• Can provide a walk through scenario of what a users might do:
  • Select learning outcomes,
  • Find learning designs,
  • Test against theory,
  • Fill in details,
  • Build,
  • Implement and
  • Evaluate

Links

• LDSE pedagogical planner tool (Cloudworks)
• About LDSE
• LDSE project web site
• Laurillard, D., Magoulas, G. & Masterman, E. (2009) LDSE: Transforming teaching practice through planning and design. American Education Research Association Symposium PDF slides

Bibliography

• Laurillard, D., & Masterman, E. (Forthcoming, 2009). Online collaborative TPD for learning design. In J. O. Lindberg & A. D. Olofsson (Eds.), Online Learning Communities and Teacher Professional Development: Methods for Improved Education Delivery.

• Masterman, E. (2008). Activity Theory and the Design of Pedagogic Planning Tools. In L. Lockyer, S. Bennett, S. Agostinho, & B. Harper (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies (pp. 209-227). Hershey, PA: IGI GLobal.

• Laurillard, D., & Masterman, E. (2009) TPD as online collaborative learning for innovation in teaching. [PDF

• Boyle, T., Bradley, C., Laurillard, D., Llubojevic, D., Neumann, T. & Pearce, D. (2008). Toward a user-oriented analytical approach to learning design. ALT Journal, 16, No 1 (pp.15-29) PDF