what the research says: can apps for teachers drive learning innovation? 21 march 2014 teachers...

What The Research Says: Can Apps for Teachers Drive Learning Innovation?21 March 2014

Teachers building community knowledge of learning

innovation

Diana Laurillard

The roles and capabilities of technology

AcquisitionInquiryDiscussionPracticeCollaborationProduction

Types of learningWhy should pedagogy improve with technology?Quality of presentation is improved by multimedia featuresAccess to digital resources and artefacts aids inquiry learningAsynchronous discussion increases the ratio of student:staff talkUsing digital models (microworlds) recruits natural learning skillsOnline construction tools support collaborative knowledge-buildingDesign tools motivate the articulation of what has been learned

Why should pedagogy improve with technology?Quality of presentation is improved by multimedia featuresAccess to digital resources and artefacts aids inquiry learningAsynchronous discussion increases the ratio of student:staff talkUsing digital models (microworlds) recruits natural learning skillsOnline construction tools support collaborative knowledge-buildingDesign tools motivate the articulation of what has been learned

What it takes to teach with technology

The teaching workload is increasing in terms of Planning for how students will learn in the mix of the physical, digital and social learning spaces designed for themCurating and adapting existing content resourcesDesigning activities and resources for all types of active learning Personalised and adaptive teaching that improve traditional methodsProviding flexibility in blended learning optionsGuiding and nurturing large cohorts of studentsUsing learning technologies to improve scale AND outcomes

BUT: Institutions and teachers do not typically plan for the teaching workload implied by these learning benefits the need to collaborate to innovate with technology We need to rethink our approach to what it takes to teach

Browse Adopt

Adapt Create

Self review

Redesign

Test

Publish

The design cycle for teachingFeedback - learner

time

Redesign

Feedback - teacher

timeRedesign

Feedback- learning

types

Redesign

Building teaching community knowledge

Make links to existing content

resources

Build on others’ tested designs

RedesignPeer review

against criteria

Browse Adopt

Adapt Create

Review

Redesign

Test

Publish

Similar to the design cycle for science

Building scientific knowledge

What is the teaching design

equivalent of the journal paper?

The Learning Designer: Browse

The Learning Designer: Adopt(interpreting Tudor portraits)

Details of: learning context, topic, aims, outcomes, student numbers, duration

Details of the pedagogy: types of learning activity,

group size, teacher presence, attached urls, duration,

student guidance

Analysis of the learning experience calculated

dynamically

The Learning Designer: Adapt(experimental design for Psychology)

Note the designed time is much greater

than the allotted time

Every section of the learning design can be

edited, and new resources attached

Analysis of the learning experience adapts to

your edits

Share to submit for review

The Learning Designer: Review(Business planning for engineers)

Notes for additional comments

Reviews and comments could be student

evaluations

Additional pane for Reviewer to add comments according to criteria ‘Test of outcome?

Alignment? Feedback? Technology?

Reviewer Feedback

Browse Adopt

Adapt Create

Review

Redesign

Test

Publish

Teaching as a design cycle

Building learning technology knowledge

Question: What is the teaching design equivalent of the journal paper?

Answer:A learning design that can be reviewed, adapted, improved, published, reused…

Does the ‘design cycle’ work?

Data from the 1st Learning Design Challenge, Feb 2014

0%20%40%60%80%

100%

Can’t sayNot at all applicableNot Very applicable Fairly applicableHighly applicable

I developed new ideas and had valuable insights about my teaching practice which were prompted by…

N = 47

I was a little disappointed that in my particular case nobody had done any review.

It's quite disappointing if you work on your LD, then try hard to do good review for someone else, and no-one is reviewing yours.

Will teachers use the Learning Designer?

Analysing teacher workload(the Course Resource Appraisal Model CRAM)

Run No. of studentsRun 1 15Run 2 20Run 3 20

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3Students 15 20 20Profit -£27k £4k £11k

Details of: credit hours, cohort size, income,

teacher costs, types of learning and teaching, online and f2f, time for prep and for support

Learning experienceTeacher preparation time

Teaching support time

Analysing teacher workload(the Course Resource Appraisal Model CRAM)

Run No. of studentsRun 1 15Run 2 20Run 3 20

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3Students 15 20 20Profit -£27k £4k £11k

Run No. of studentsRun 1 15Run 2 30Run 3 60

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3Students 15 30 60Profit -£27k £11k £38k

Teaching as a Design Science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology (Routledge, 2012)

d.laurillard@ioe.ac.uk

http://web.lkldev.ioe.ac.uk/LD/ http://

buildingcommunityknowledge.wordpress.com

Further details…

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