Dear Colleagues,
Please find details below of an Elluminate Wednesday session on 30th March which will be run by Helen Beetham and Marion Manton. This will be of particular relevance to projects working in Curriculum Design and others interested in approaches to supporting change at different levels of curriculum development.
Elluminate Wednesdays: March 30 2-3pm
The Learning Design Support Environment and Curriculum Design
The JISC Curriculum Design projects are looking to develop institutional systems and processes which enable better dialogue and decision-making about courses and programmes which lead to better curriculum design and ultimately better learning. The Learning Design Support Environment project is working on a similar story which might be able to intersect with the CD projects, especially around linking curriculum design at the business process level with educational design at the session and module level and linking new/enhanced business processes with staff development and guidance. This session aims to explore how the two areas of work might align with each other.
The Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) Project is working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) to scaffold teachers’ decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. The LDSE captures and represents a user’s learning design (at module and session level), structuring the user input so that it is amenable to analysis (in terms of learning experience and teaching time), and can also be adopted and adapted by others. Key areas the LDSE is investigating include:
· Forms of representation of learning designs
· An ontology for learning design
· Designing at Module and Session levels
· Importing and adapting an existing design
· Selecting from existing teaching-learning activities
· Editing the properties of TLAs
· Extensive advice and guidance
· Analysis of teaching costs and learning benefits
· Sharing specific and generic patterns
· Exporting a design to an institutional format
This session will provide a tour of the latest version of the LDSE highlighting the features italicised above, and allow time for discussion around the many areas where the interest of the LDSE and the Curriculum design projects align. In particular:
1. How we model principles in educational design - What important principles do you use to support the learning design process?
2. Guidelines and toolkits for staff - Could the LDSE tools support or work alongside tools being developed by projects?
3. Joining up systems - Can our inputs and outputs work together? How do we join up institution-level business processes with learning-level design?
4. Taking things forward - How can LDSE support and inform the work of the CDD programme? And vice versa?
Further information about the LDSE project: https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/ldse/
To receive a link to the Elluminate Live session, please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLTS2RF
Best regards,
Sarah
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