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A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. (in Special Issue on Advances in Learning Design)

A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. (in Special Issue on Advances in Learning Design)
A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. (in Special Issue on Advances in Learning Design)
Despite the plethora of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools and resources available, practitioners are still not making effective use of e-learning to enrich the student experience. This article describes a learning design toolkit which guides practitioners through the process of creating pedagogically informed learning activities which make effective use of appropriate tools and resources. This work is part of a digital libraries project in which teaching staff at two universities in the UK and two in the USA are collaborating to share e-learning resources in the subject domains of Physical, Environmental and Human Geography. Finding, or creating, suitable e-learning resources and embedding them in well designed learning activities can be both challenging and time consuming. Sharing and adapting effective designs and solutions is both a stimulant and a time saver. This article describes the background to the specification of a learning activities design toolkit to support teachers as they create or adapt e-learning activities. This uses a model of pedagogical approaches as a basis for developing effective learning design plans and illustrates its use. The authors share their definition of a learning activity and taxonomies for the constituent elements. Real examples are discussed to illustrate their approach.
learning design, toolkits, teaching/learning strategies, e-learning, pedagogy
Conole, Grainne
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Fill, Karen
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Conole, Grainne
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Fill, Karen
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Conole, Grainne and Fill, Karen (2005) A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. (in Special Issue on Advances in Learning Design). Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2005 (08).

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Despite the plethora of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools and resources available, practitioners are still not making effective use of e-learning to enrich the student experience. This article describes a learning design toolkit which guides practitioners through the process of creating pedagogically informed learning activities which make effective use of appropriate tools and resources. This work is part of a digital libraries project in which teaching staff at two universities in the UK and two in the USA are collaborating to share e-learning resources in the subject domains of Physical, Environmental and Human Geography. Finding, or creating, suitable e-learning resources and embedding them in well designed learning activities can be both challenging and time consuming. Sharing and adapting effective designs and solutions is both a stimulant and a time saver. This article describes the background to the specification of a learning activities design toolkit to support teachers as they create or adapt e-learning activities. This uses a model of pedagogical approaches as a basis for developing effective learning design plans and illustrates its use. The authors share their definition of a learning activity and taxonomies for the constituent elements. Real examples are discussed to illustrate their approach.

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Published date: 2005
Additional Information: Commentary on: Chapter 9: An Instructional Engineering Method and Tool for the Design of Units of Learning. (Paquette, De la Teja, Léonard, Lundgren Cayrol & Marino, 2005)
Keywords: learning design, toolkits, teaching/learning strategies, e-learning, pedagogy

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Local EPrints ID: 18127
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18127
PURE UUID: 7b486af8-4f1a-44f7-8362-47df65bec86d

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Date deposited: 27 Oct 2005
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 14:17

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Author: Grainne Conole
Author: Karen Fill

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