This document outlines a presentation given by Professor Mark Brown on blending learning with purpose. It discusses key concepts like narratives, identities, and designs in education. Brown emphasizes placing the student experience at the center of educational choices. He also discusses frameworks for learner-content interaction, learner-learner interaction, and teacher-learner interaction. Brown advocates understanding student workload and using a "pedagogical compass" to guide different learning styles like constructivist, connectivist, and instructionist approaches. The conclusion encourages reflection on fundamental points, new understandings, and ways to improve the learning experience.

1. Designs for Learning:
Blending with Purpose
Professor Mark Brown
Queen’s University
Belfast
25th June 2015

2. What direction is East?
Blending with purpose…

3. "Using new digital technology to improve
education is not rocket science... it is
much, much harder than that”
(Diana Laurillard, 2009).
Blending with purpose…

4. 1. Narratives
2. Identities
3. Designs
Outline…
Designs for Learning:
Blending with Purpose

5. Key message…
“At the heart of ‘learning design’ is a
philosophy of placing the student
experience at the centre of the
choices you make.”

6. 1. Narratives…

7. 1. Narratives…

8. 1. Narratives…

9. What is the unique nature of the learning
experience at Queen’s?
1. Narratives…
Question….
Activity….
Describe one defining characteristic of the
learning experience that you would want
to feature on the University website...

10. 1. Narratives…
Report back….

11. 2. Identities…

12. How would you describe yourself as a
lecturer / teacher?
2. Identities…
Question….
Identify a single metaphor that best fits
your approach or overall philosophy of
teaching...
Activity….

13. 2. Identities…
Report back….

14. 1. Narratives…
Metaphor of caves, campfires,
watering holes and mountain tops
A storyteller…

15. 3. Designs…

16. Learner-Content
Interaction
Learner-learner
Interaction
Teacher-Learner
Interaction
Interactivity
Framework
Places
Tools
Spaces
3. Designs…

17. 3. Designs…

18. 3. Designs…

19. 3. Designs…

20. 3. Designs…
Key principle of substitution

21. How much time do students spend each
week fulfilling your course requirements?
Question….
Activity….
Pick one week in your course and
calculate on average how much time
students need to spend completing the
requirements...
3. Designs…

22. Understanding student workload implications…
3. Designs…

23. Report back….
3. Designs…

24. 3. Designs…

25. Learning by sharing
(Connectivist)
Learning by listening
(Instructionist)
Learning by doing
(Constructivist)
Learning by making
(Constructionist)
Pedagogical compass…
3. Designs…

26. 3. Designs…
One contribution MOOCs are making…

27. 3. Designs…

28. Conclusion…
A conclusion is the place
where you got tired of thinking
(or ran out of time)

29. Conclusion…
The FUN of reflection…
F = What was the fundamental point?
U = What new understanding are you
taking away?
N = What new thing will you do in
your teaching to make for a better
learning experience?

30. Thank
You!

31. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
www.dcu.ie/nidl
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz
www.slideshare.net/mbrownz