Designs and testing for a

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Review meeting 23 January 2007
A User-oriented Planner for Learning Analysis and
Design - Overview
Designs and testing for a pedagogic planning
tool
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Findings from lecturers - Module planning
Give me ideas Help me design teaching Make it
easy Help me plan the work
Lack of familiarity with pedagogy Want to see
what others do Not sure whats possible with ICT
Help with links between topics, outcomes,
assessment Provide structure and flexibility
Assume low IT skills - scaffold it carefully,
make it painless Begin with module specifications
Map out module over weeks then work at sequence
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Module outline prototype
Help with planning the links between outcomes,
resources, learning activities, assessment
Links to Blooms taxonomy, etc.
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Module planning prototype
Computer-based tools for data manipulation,
charting, designing, testing
Learner is working actively with materials or
resources to find out information or explore
others' ideas.
Offers default values for learning activities
promoted
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Shows balance of activities
Help me plan the work Help me design the
teaching
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Module resource planning prototype
Default values are helpful as long as I can
change them
Shows default values and balance of staff time
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Calendar planning prototype
More likely to plan study hours by content than
by method
I map out module over weeks then work at a
sequence
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Findings from lecturers - Pedagogy planning
Make the design tool flexible Make it easy Give
me ideas Give me help with design Adapt to my
practice
Modify as module develops
Start from a model that can be changed
A framework for thinking. Whats possible with
new technology? Suggest appropriate activities
Need support for timing student work Link to
subject-specific resources and communities
Enable lecturers to share practice
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Learning Design for the Session Planner
Select a Week to design in detail, given Topics,
Learning Outcomes, Assessment Methods and
Teaching Methods defined in the Module Planner
Clarify learner needs, given Learning Outcomes,
links to data Select from menu of learner
needs Select learning theory to support
analysis Select learning pattern to work through
as learner Work through critique of sequence in
terms of learning theory Adapt learning pattern
to Topic, Learning Outcomes, Timing Revise
Session parameters Publish and test with
learners Use learner output to revise design
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Links to data, resources, findings
The project staff are collecting exemplars of
definitions, case studies, learning objects,
learning patterns, etc. that could be of use to
project lecturers. Eventually we would hope to
do a search of repositories and especially D4L
outputs.
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Select from likely learner needs
can we get help in mapping activity sequences to
learning outcomes?
Select from the list below one that corresponds
most closely to your analysis, and select the
approaches you believe would be most suitable

• Likely learner needs
• Understanding meaning of terms, special words
• Understanding, explaining processes within a
  system
• Understanding and applying a complex concept
• Motivation to do thorough research
• Understanding how properties of elements in a
  system relate to each other
• Justifications for key principles or
  relationships
• Seeing the familiar as problematic
• Understanding the value of new concepts

• These patterns would help students think through
  their initial thoughts for an unfamiliar area of
  study...
• Related learning patterns
• Related LAMS sequence
• Related learning objects, learning design tools
  in CETL
• Case study from CETL, JISC MLA, etc
• Reusable learning objects from MERLOT, JORUM,
  etc.

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Capture experiences of other lecturers
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Adapt a related learning activity sequence
This sequence is designed to help learners think
through their initial ideas for an unfamiliar
field of study, and prepare for understanding the
expert definitions and concepts. Work through
the sequence, to see how you experience it as a
learning process.
Start from a model that can be changed Keep it
simple, but extensible - standard templates are
good if they produce something
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Testing a learning activity sequence
Does it motivate learners to Access the
teacher/expert concepts? Ask questions of the
teacher or their peers? Offer their own idea to
teacher or peers? Act to achieve a clear task
goal? Use feedback to improve practice/actions
? Compare outputs with their peers? Reflect on
that experience? Discuss/debate ideas with their
peers? Articulate their ideas? Produce an output?
No - needs to be adapted
Not explicitly stated
No - needs to be adapted
No - needs to be adapted
a framework for thinking, offering reminders of
whats possible
Offer generic templates, and module-specific
ones and links to subject examples
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Learning Design for the Session Planner
Select a Week to design in detail, given Topics,
Learning Outcomes, Assessment Methods and
Teaching Methods defined in the Module Planner
Clarify learner needs, given Learning Outcomes,
links to data Select from menu of learner
needs Select learning theory to support
analysis Select learning pattern to work through
as learner Work through critique of sequence in
terms of learning theory Adapt learning pattern
to Topic, Learning Outcomes, Timing Revise
Session parameters Publish and test with
learners Use learner output to revise design
this would be good for helping us to do our
curriculum review
this is really making me think about it in a
different way
Ive never thought about the way students spend
their time before
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Design principles

• Start with what is recognisable to lecturers
• Aim for optimal use of technology, tools and
  resources
• Build on existing practice to define categories
  and needs
• Link to existing exemplars and findings wherever
  possible
• Provide defaults and customisation
• Rapid prototypes for rapid testing
• Aim to implement as database with web front-end
• Focus on planning learning and teaching, not
  logistics
• Take lecturers to the point of analysing their
  ideas, then select an example from a provided
  list
• Scaffold lecturers in the gradual use of
  terminology of LD
• Record decisions, notes, designs in lecturers
  portfolio file

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Web design (first draft)
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Future plans

• Implement tested prototypes as database with Web
  front-end
• Link plans to Phoebe project - cross-refer, and
  share test-beds - develop joint spec for
  mainstream application and sustainability
• Create direct supported links from LAMS design,
  and Ped Planner tool to contributions to LAMS
  community and Phoebe Wiki
• Build closer links with Sharing the Load, ELIDA,
  SLED
• Build in outputs from Mod4L, CETIS and other
  projects
• Develop spec for the full range of users in FE,
  HE, ACL, WBL, and full range of content,
  functionality, and forms of design support
• Begin testing with lecturers who are not
  currently engaged in e-learning
• Begin looking at advice on logistics - could we
  build this in?
• Implement glossary - global edit function, and
  link to a user-constructed ontology site
• Initiate, articulate and disseminate a new way of
  conceptualising learning design in terms of
  outcomes and patterns of activity, and internal
  analysis of learning tasks, layers of learning