Dawn Leeder University of Cambridge

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Sharing the LOAD - learning objectives,
activities designs JISC Circular 01/06 Design
for Learning Programme Implementation Strand
Start-up meeting Aston University, 23-24 May 2006

• Dawn Leeder University of Cambridge
• Dr Richard WindleUniversity of Nottingham
• Dr Raquel MoralesUniversity of Cambridge

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Key aims of Sharing the LOAD project

• capture holistic learning designs containing
  learning activities that support defined learning
  objectives
• create exemplars by incorporating components from
  large pre-existing collection of mature reusable
  learning objects
• evaluate for pedagogical effectiveness across a
  range of subjects by RLO-CETL community
• provide recommendations for future research
  development
• disseminate outcomes widely by multiple methods
• initial review of designs implicit in these
  collections to select designs that show the most
  promise for reuse

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Sharing the LOAD project stages

• 1 May 2006 31 Oct 2007 - Duration 18 months
• Management group and regular meetings established
  Lead Cambridge
• Review of existing mature reusable content Lead
  Nottingham
• Recruitment of participants Lead Cambridge
• Re/design of workshop poster templates Lead
  Cambridge
• Practitioner questionnaire Lead Nottingham
• Practitioner-based workshops Lead Cambridge
• Development of exemplars Lead Cambridge
• Use and evaluation Lead Cambridge
• Practitioner longer-term impact interview Lead
  Nottingham
• Final report and dissemination Lead Cambridge

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Sharing the LOAD management group

• Meet every 3 months but more frequently at first
• Key personnel plus representative from the
  support project
• JISC programme manager
• other stakeholders
• Alternate meetings between Cambridge and
  Nottingham
• Video-conference where possible

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Sharing the LOAD initial review

• Review of existing mature reusable content
• May - Jun 2006
• catalogue of existing RLOs reviewed
• broad learning design categories identified
• classification of RLOs - learning design taxonomy
• RLOs at nodal points selected
• report and analysis
• Jul - Oct 2006
• Informs redesign of poster templates for
  workshops

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Sharing the LOAD workshops

• Practitioner-based workshops to capture learning
  designs
• Nov - Dec 2006
• Cambridge
• Nottingham
• London - Goldsmiths Centre for Excellence in
  Learning Technology (Mira Vogel)1
• Oxford - Learning Technologies Group (Liz
  Masterman)2

1 Designs for learning in virtual environments
insider perspectives2 Evaluation of generic
tools used in designing for learning JISC
e-learning Programme - e-Learning and Pedagogy
Strand
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Sharing the LOAD exemplars

• Reusable learning designs selected from the
  workshops
• Jan - Mar 2007
• each learning design piloted in 3 subjects1 to
  create
• exemplars based on the same design to support
  different subjects
• each exemplar described as a case study2

1 Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health Professions2
ACETS exemplar and semi-structured learning
design statement
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Sharing the LOAD use and evaluation

• Apr - Jun 2007
• Use by
• 3500 nursing students
• 1500 biomedical science students
• 180 graduate entry medics
• Evaluation with RLO-CETL Evaluation Toolkit
• field notes
• student questionnaire
• tutor's form
• technology audit

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Sharing the LOAD interviews

• Practitioner questionnaire
• Sep - Oct 2006
• Baseline survey to establish initial level of
  knowledge
• Analysis and report
• Practitioner long-term impact interview
• Jun - Jul 2007
• 12 interviews to determine any increase in
  knowledge
• Analysis and report

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Sharing the LOAD final report

• Final report and dissemination
• Aug - Oct 2007
• report of project outputs
• recommendations for further work
• national conference submission (i.e. ALT-C)
• international workshops