Pedagogical scenario

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Definition

See also the category example cases. The distinction between an (abstract) scenario and a concrete example cases is not always easy in the litterature, given that published example cases try to generalize...

Typical ingredients and typologies

Here is a small list of typicial ingrediants one can find in a scenario

Note: some courseware integrates learning activities, e.g. hypermodels or e-learning environments based on IMS Learning Design

Schulmeister (2005:487-488) suggest to define scenarios according to 3 dimensions:

  1. presence - virtual
  2. information - cooperation
  3. instruction - learning

The definition of what a pedagogical scenario is can differ a lot in various schools of thought based on different Learning theories, pedagogical theories etc. There are very contrasting instructional design models and ideas on pedagogic strategy.

Related design methdology

Modern pedagogical theory (whether behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist etc. ) insists on the importance of scenarios, i.e. story-boards that define learning activities.

A typical example is IMS Learning Design, that implements the following basic learning design model:

ROLE ->performs-> ACTIVITIES ->within-> an ENVRIONMENT

Software

Examples

See also (for the moment): Category:Pedagogical scenarios and Category:Example cases

Links

this is really not complete, sorry

Scenario databases

  • Forum New Leaning (FNL, a Swiss competence network for teaching & learning with new technologies). Nice database of "learning objects" (i.e. scenarios that a teacher can use in classes) with many examples (most are in German)
  • PerfecTIC Excellent canadian (french/english) scenario database. Each scenario is available as printable PDF.
  • ProfWeb Excellent french/english Canadian Teacher Resource (not just scenarios).
  • La main à la pate French site for teaching science in primary school (lots of interesting teacher-tested activities/scenarios).

References

  • Schulmeister, R. (2005). Kriterien didaktischer Qualität im E-Learning zur Sicherung der Akzeptanz und Nachhaltigkeit. In D. Euler & S. Seufert (Hrsg.), E-Learning in Hochschulen und Bildungszentren, München: Oldenbourg, p. 487.