Technology Enhanced Learning Design Briefing for LTS staff (Open University)

1. Focus
Technology
Enhanced Learning
Design
Will Woods

2. Technology Enhanced Learning

3. Designing Technology Enhanced
Learning

4. Definition: Learning Design
• A 'learning design' is the description of the
teaching-learning process that takes place in
a unit of learning (e.g. a module or any other
designed learning event). The key principle is
that it represents the learning activities and
the support activities that are performed by
different persons in the context of a unit of
learning

5. Model: Iterative, Evidenced-based
Approach…

6. Learning Design v Instructional
Design
“learning design is broader than instructional design –
it’s about the whole suite of tools, resources and
methods that might be used to support the design
process. Instructional design has a very specific history
and associated research field.”

7. Conceptualise: Persona’s maps,
templates and tools…
• LAMS,
• Compendium LD,
• OU LD toolkit,
• …

8. Enacting LD…
• Create and Share Pedagogical patterns.
• Prototype (build).

9. Learning Design at the OU?
• LD versus ld
• Curriculum Design – routes, qualification
structure and curriculum map.
• LD is supposed to be “technology neutral”
• In reality the parallel design of activity and
technology provides the best outcomes.

10. Levels of Design?
Learning Design
• Curriculum level (qualification design)
• Pedagogic module design
• “Technology neutral”
TEL Design
• Activity design
• “Technology specific” – applied pedagogy.

11. Pedagogic Design is “inclusive”
• The OU and other HEIs are currently engaging in the
implementing of Organisational Learning Design
processes – The method is to adopt a “pedagogy first”
approach which considers technological methods to
achieving that aim (Learning Outcome), i.e. the
boundaries are blurred as the pedagogic design
determines the technology choices.
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12. What is TEL Design?
• TEL design is evidence-based activity design (e.g. task,
tool, activity pattern oriented).
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13. But really…what is it?
• TEL design is much more than asset design and is a
holistic approach to managing student activity,
considering analytical evaluation (“the student voice”),
learning outcomes, learner support, technology
affordance and practice improvement.
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14. Example:
DB123
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• Forum
• Wiki
• Blog
• Online rooms
• Open Studio **
• OU Annotate
• Personal Blog
• OU Google Docs
• Conditional Paths
• Student Data
• iCMA
• Quiz
• Questionnaire
• Peer Assessment **
• Participation Statement
• Standard Provision
• Structured Content
• HTML Activity
• OU Media Player
• Print on Demand **
Content
Consistency
Assessment
Survey
Collaborativ
e
Community
Personal
Integrated
Usability / Accessibility
Guidance and Support
LearningMediaDesign
StaffDevelopmentandAdoption
Learning Systems websites

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• ASSESSMENT
• Assignments (iCMAs)
• External iCMA (OpenMark)
• Peer Assessment (Workshop)
• Questionnaire
• Statement of participation
• INDIVIDUAL/PERSONAL
• Audio Recording Tools
• Blog/Learning Log
• OUAnnotate
• OUGoogle docs
• Portfolio activity
CONTENT
Conditional learning
Dual pane
HTML Activity
LTI (e.g. VitalSource)
MathML
MyReferences
OU Media Player
Resource bank
RSS Feeds
Structured Content
Learning Systems available tools:
COLLABORATION
Blog – module
Chat
Forums
Google collaborative activity
Online rooms (OU Live)
Open Studio
Wikis
CONTENT / COLLAB
DataPlus
Glossary

17. Regularly Evaluate and Reflect

18. Requires training and reflection on
practice.

19. Questions and Thoughts?