Title: Ecosystems of collaboration case study: LAMS Learning Activity Management System James Dalziel Profe
1Ecosystems of collaborationcase study LAMS
Learning Activity Management SystemJames
DalzielProfessor of Learning Technology and
Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of
Excellence (MELCOE)Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia Director, LAMS Foundationjames_at_melcoe
.mq.edu.auwww.melcoe.mq.edu.auInvited
presentation for CoSN, March 10th, 2008,
Washington DC, USA
2Overview
- A Vision for Teachers for the Future
- Learning Design
- LAMS
- Overview Examples
- LAMS Community
- New to LAMS Branching
- Summary
3A Vision for Teachers of the Future
- Teachers create digital lesson plans that make
it easy to run educational activities on
computers - Teachers share good teaching ideas (digital
lesson plans) with their colleagues - Teachers are free to adapt, localize and improve
good teaching ideas from others - By collectively sharing and improving good
teaching ideas, teachers would lead an education
revolution - Web 2.0/Participatory web for pedagogy
4What is Learning Design?
- Learning Design is a new approach to describing
lesson plans in a structured, digital way - A Learning Design typically describes a sequence
of student activities (content collaboration
tasks) - A sequence applies to a class/week/topic (not
whole unit) - Focus on sharing and re-using good sequences
- Often implemented online with technology
- But becoming a general framework for face to face
and online
5Learning Design Example LAMS
- LAMS is the worlds leading software for Learning
Design - 1000s of educators, 80 countries, translated
into 25 languages - Demo accounts at http//demo.lamscommunity.org/
- Visual drag and drop approach to designing
sequences - Helps educators to visualise teaching and
learning processes - LAMS sequences can be shared, re-used and adapted
- LAMS Community (www.lamscommunity.org)
- Approximately 2900 members, 86 countries, 220
sequences - Freely available as open source software
- Integrated with CMSs Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle,
Sakai, etc
6LAMS Demonstration
- What are the qualities of an effective teacher?
(from preservice training) - Step 1 Answer question, then reflect on answers
from other students - Step 2 Vote on a list of qualities, consider
collated votes - Step 3 Discuss responses to Steps 1 2
- Step 4 Read an experts view on the topic
- Step 5 Discuss experts view compare to class
view - Step 6 Personal reflection (or essay if
assessment) on initial question, based on
initial views, class discussion expert view - Can be run face to face with no technology, or
fully online, or a mix - Demonstration Authoring this sequence, then
Preview Learner view - Example 2 Role play Adopting Interactive
Whiteboards in schools
7LAMS Authoring view of Qualities of an
Effective Teacher
8LAMS Student view Step 1a (QA) of Qualities
of an Effective Teacher
9LAMS Student view Step 1b (QA) of Qualities
of an Effective Teacher
10LAMS Author Adopting Interactive Whiteboards in
schools Role play
11LAMS Community View of various communities
forums
12LAMS Community Repository for Sharing Learning
Designs
13LAMS Community Detailed view of individual
sequence
14New LAMS Features
- Introducing LAMS V2.1
- Branching
- Teacher allocated
- Group-based
- Tool-output based (MCQ Forum so far, more to
come) - Sequences in optional
- Student choice of one or more sequences
15Implementation of new Branching Features for LAMS
V2.1
16LAMS 2.1 Interactive Whiteboards Role play
Inside branching for role tasks
17Pedagogical uses of new features
- Can assign different students to different topics
- Each group investigates a different aspect of a
phenomenon, then reports findings back to the
whole class - Can use Branching with Tool Output (and Skip) to
provide remediation tasks for only some students
(eg, quiz score lt X, then do branch remediation
activities otherwise skip branch) - Can allow students to choose from different
optional sequences (according to topic, skill,
thoroughness, etc)
18Summary
- The field of Learning Design provide a new
framework for describing digital lesson plans - Not just content quizzes includes Web 2 style
collaboration - LAMS helps teachers create run digital lesson
plans with students and share them with other
teachers - Software and sequences freely available to use
and adapt - The Vision Teachers lead an education revolution
by sharing, adapting and improving digital lesson
plans
19Further LAMS Information
- Introduction to LAMS walkthroughs, videos, case
studieshttp//cd.lamsfoundation.org/ - Demonstration accounts for LAMShttp//demo.lamsco
mmunity.org/ - General information about LAMS http//www.lamsfou
ndation.org/ - LAMS Communityhttp//www.lamscommunity.org/
- Qualities of an Effective Teacher download
sequence from http//www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/
clubs/educationalcommunity/lamsresearchdevelopment
/lams-seq//sequence?seq5fid256078 - Adoption of Interactive Whiteboards in schools
Role Play download sequence from
http//lamscommunity.org/lamscentral/sequence?seq_
id376440 - Animated mock-ups for Pedagogic Planner
concepthttp//saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/jly/Ped_pla
nner.htmhttp//saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/jly/Ped_pl
annerv2.htm