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Keynote presentation given at ICT 2010, Singapore on "Enhancing learning through good design"
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Enhancing learning through good design
Tom Boyle
Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI)
London Metropolitan University
ICT 2010, Singapore July 1 2010
Design for learning in the 21st century
What is the problem?
Everthing has been thought of before,
The difficulty is to think of it again
Goethe
Learning in a period of rapid and repeated
change that affects both the means and goals of
learning
What should be learned…?
What changes and what remains deeply the same ..? …
How do we foster this learning?
Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world
Archimedes
Where do we stand in order to apply these levers in education? What knowledge and skill do we need?
Levers
A place to stand
ICT provides the levers to move the world of the
21st century
We need a deep and sound pedagogical base to ground ourselves in the use of the
new technologies
How can we enhance learning through design that
effectively uses ICT?
Different levels at which design for learning can be focused (Autodesk
Model)
Reusable learning objects
Effective media mix: visualization
Dynamic visualization of muscle action
Active learning with effective media mix
Language games
Games to encourage engagement
Interactivity
Interacting with music for non musicians
Delivery on mobile phones
Some design principles
Appropriate and effective use of media– use the natural blend of media to suit the learning
task– visualization, including dynamic visualization– making the abstract concrete and familiar
Interactivity
– quality of the interaction for learning
User control
Design for reuse
Agile Development of Learning Resources
The Process of Designing
Developing multimedia learning objects
‘Agile’ development
Small groups
Tutor (learners) and developer
Driven by learner needs
Workshops
Iterative prototyping
Evaluation
Boyle T. et al.(2006) An Agile method for developing learning objects. Proceedings
of the 23rd Annual ASCILITE conference
The birth of a learning object
www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk
CETL for Reusable Learning Objects
‘Learning design’
at the lesson level
Repositories of “Inspirational" lesson plans and supporting
materials
‘Executable’ lesson/activity
plan
http://aragorn.scca.ecu.edu.au/tsldb/
LAMS: Learning Activity Management System
LAMS creates "digital lesson plans" that –– are ‘executable’– can be run online
with students, – stored online and
shared among teachers
IMS-LD “inspired” James Dalziel
Transforming a course
Facilitating the process of designing
Viewpoints project
LDSE
Learning Design Support Environment Aims to create a toolset for pedagogical planning at
the course and session levels Led by Diana Laurillard at the Institute of Education Attributes economic and pedagogical values to various
teaching decisions Provides suggestions to teachers Reuse of open educational resources (OERs) Reusable design ‘frames’ + OER (content)
Articulating the relationship between design and ‘learning
object’
Learning design revisited
Three problems with learning objects
Successful educationally
but
Limitations in productivity
Weak support for repurposing and local adaptation
Successful designs are implicit and not easily available for reuse
Generative learning objects (GLOs)
The basis for reuse should be the pedagogical design rather than ‘content’ of the learning object
This gives a tremendous increase in productivity
A richer basis for reuse
Allows local tutors to repurpose learning objects to meet their local needs and preferences
– including international adaptation
GLO Maker 2 Demo
www.glomaker.org
glomaker.wetpaint.com
http://www.glomaker.org
GLO Maker 2
Design for Learning in the 21st century
Broader ecological world view
Creating effective, reusable learning designs
The process of designing
Capturing and reusing learning designs
Need to find better ways of representing, exchanging and reusing learning designs
Need to articulate more clearly a model of how designs at each layer relate to each other
Finally, if this all seems a bit too structural
Good design works … and is deeply aesthetically satisfying
… design is also about beauty
Questions?