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)
http://web.lkldev.ioe.ac.uk/LD/ http://
buildingcommunityknowledge.wordpress.com
Further details…
http://bit.ly/1cqiIK1