Learning Resource Designplan.design.share

Facilitator: Cindy Underhill, Office of Learning Technology

5.27.09

Introductions

• You

• Learning resource design What words to you associate with this term?

Learning resource design is …

In our context:

• about the activity of the learner – what the learner does in the process of learning.

• focused on the learning activity – process rather than content.

• specific to stand-alone resources that support learning inside or outside the classroom…

…

Learning resource design is …

a plan, structure or design for a learning situation, supported by tools (software, applications, websites) and resources that represent the design (questions, case studies, further considerations, media, self-assessment)

(adapted from Learn about Learning Design: Institute of Educational Technology: OUUK, January 2009)

Session Outline

1. Plan Consider conditions for learning Group Activity #1: respond, discuss and

identify

2. Learning Resource Design project examples: LEAP and Digital

Tattoo Group Activity #2: explore, analyze and

share 3. Wrap-Up

You’ll have the opportunity to…

• identify conditions for learning suitable for online, self-guided resources

• analyze the learning design in project examples

• gain a new perspective on something you know or learn something unexpected     

Plan: Consider

I cannot make anyone learn, I can only attempt to provide the conditions

in which they can learn…

Albert Einstein and Socrates

Group Activity #1

In groups of 3, discuss:

Your ideas about the conditions that support learning online where an instructor isn’t present:

What are the important elements (ie. consistency, key questions, interaction, etc.)? What approaches do you find helpful?

Identify as many as you can to share with the larger group.

Design

Within simplicity there is almost infinite complexity…

 Joey Roth – Industrial Designer

Project: LEAP

• project: LEAP – academic support site – aimed at undergraduates

• features: student authored content, web 2.0 tools and approaches, interactive features(comments, quizzes, polls, chat), blog format

• why does it matter?

Design Considerations

• ease of use: authors (students and project staff) and users.• dynamic and static content

• display as a cohesive collection, but components (content) would be locally managed (tutoring)• shareable/re-publishable at page/ component level to support personalization.• opportunity for interaction with content and peers

• students sharing with other students (promoting sense of community)

Project: Digital Tattoo

• project: Digital Tattoo – online tutorial – aimed at undergraduates

• features: student authored content around 4 key themes, web 2.0 tools and approaches, self assessment, progress tracking, case studies/examples, “in the news”

• why does it matter?

Design Considerations

• ease of use: authors (students and project staff) and users.• dynamic and static content

• non-linear (enter in a number of ways)

• non-judgmental

• timely – in the news blog (headlines) and feeds (Yahoo pipes)• content creation/selection for students by students

Learning Objectives

Broadly: increasing awareness about what we share online, who we are sharing it with and what others may be doing with it.

Specifically:• identify the approaches to taking control of their online spaces (learn how to alter privacy settings, change browser settings, etc).• develop an understanding that a digital tattoo is about digital reputation and it is ours to manage in the way we see fit – but be informed.

Example: Digital Tattoo

www.digitaltattoo.ubc.ca

tutorial elements

Group Activity #2

In groups of 3, analyze the learning resource you are assigned. Consider the following questions:

what is the activity that the learner invited to engage in? what do you know about the conditions for learning for this resource? how do the learning design elements support the conditions for learning? If you have time…In what way might this resource provide some value to a more formal learning situation?

Share

Your observations from your analysis of the resources you were asked to review…

Wrap-Up

Your learning…

Session Resources

• http://leap.ubc.ca/• http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/

• Additional resources: • http://wiki.ubc.ca/Category:Online_Teaching_Modules