Conole and Fill learning taxonomy

Draft

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Introduction

I am trying to visualize the learning(/pedagogy/technology) taxonomies that Graíne Conole et al. came up with. The taxonomy is somewhat provisional. I did throw it together from various Concole and Fill publications, PPT slides, the DialogPlus website, and a little amount of salt and pepper. One of my main contributions was to add "Toilet-learning" - obviously - since I plan to print out an A1 or A0 poster once I am happy and decorate one of the toilet doors at TECFA with it - Daniel K. Schneider 18:26, 25 May 2010 (UTC).

To do list:

• Add some missing ingredients (e.g. in the tools sections or instructional design models)
• Rethink (maybe) the hierarchy
• Remove some clouds (maybe) and/or produce multi-page graphs

See also DialogPlus Toolkit and Compendium LD

For visualization, I am using automatic layout mechanisms and various hierarchy schemes available through the Graphviz program.

How to use

• In this page, you only see so-called thumbnails
• Click on the various pictures to enlarge and keep clicking until you will reach the *.SVG image (the original is A0 size, i.e. a rather big poster). Of course, you need a real web browser (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Safari ... it won't work with IE).

SFDP layout (defaults)

ratio = expand

A0 size portrait:

Learning taxonomy - take 1 - SFDP layout engine - portrait

A0 size square:

Learning taxonomy - take 1 - SFDP layout engine - square

A0 size landscape:

Learning taxonomy - take 1 - SFDP layout engine - landscape

SFDP layout (extra arguments)

ratio = expand
smoothing="spring";

A0 size landscape:

Learning taxonomy - take 1 - SFDP layout engine - spring smoothing- landscape

TwoPi layout

Learning taxonomy - take 1 - SFDP layout engine

In-wiki graphviz generation

(removed)

I don't think that it is a good idea to use this wiki's graphviz interface to render large graphs, since it can only show the raw image (no thumbnail) - Daniel K. Schneider 17:57, 25 May 2010 (UTC).

Links and Bibliography

• Conole, Gráinne and Karen Fill (2005). A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. Journal of Interactive Media in Education (Advances in Learning Design. Special Issue, eds. Colin Tattersall, Rob Koper), 2005/08. ISSN:1365-893X Abstract (PDF/HTML open access)

• Conole, G. & Fill, K. "Designing a Learning Activity Toolkit." Ed-Media 2004 Poster, Lugano, Switzerland PPT

• Conole.G. (2010), State of the Art report on training teachers, blended learning and elearning (draft for discussion version), The Open University HTML, retrieved May 2010.

• http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2333 (Before I answer, I have to look at these drawings a bit ...)