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Panning for Gold (Designing Pedagogically-inspired Learning Nuggets) Chris Bailey, Mohd T Zalfan & Hugh Davis Learning Technologies Group Karen Fill & Gráinne Conole School of Education

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Panning for Gold (Designing Pedagogically-inspired Learning Nuggets). Structure of Presentation. Background Nugget Model Comparison with IMS-LD Demo Conclusions. The DialogPLUS Project. 3 year JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom project - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Panning for Gold(Designing Pedagogically-

inspired Learning Nuggets)

Chris Bailey, Mohd T Zalfan & Hugh Davis

Learning Technologies Group

Karen Fill & Gráinne Conole School of Education

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Structure of Presentation

BackgroundNugget ModelComparison with IMS-LDDemoConclusions

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The DialogPLUS Project

3 year JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom project

Concerned with creating, sharing & repurposing online learning activities that draw on a wide range of available resources pulled from digital libraries

Geography partners: Southampton, Leeds,UCSB,Penn State

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Nuggets

Due to confusing terminology definitions within e-learning, a pedagogically neutral term was invented for the geographers - the nugget

A nugget would represent an atomic, self-contained set of resources centred around specific learning objectives.

Nugget aka ‘learning activity’ Several nuggets could be used in a lecture, as

assignments or practicals. Nuggets can range from written notes, word/pdf

documents web pages, small website, flash animation

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Examples of Nuggets

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Why model nuggets?

Our intention was to provide a nugget repository/digital library (e.g. JORUM) where geographers could upload their own nuggets, attaching pedagogically-orientated metadata and search/view other people’s nuggets using these same terms

This lead to the development of the toolkit

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Aware of the development of IMS-LD, however..

Previous experiences in similar situations highlighted negative aspects of enforcing existing standards onto practitioners

We decided to create our own modelAlthough developed independently, there

are a lot of similarities between our nugget model and IMS-LD

IMS-LD

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Learning Activity

A learning activity (nugget) has these main elements:

Required: learning outcomes a set of attributes tasks roles

Optional: tools resources outputs

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Learning ActivityLearning outcomes

Tools

Discussion boardWeb browserExcel .....

Resources

LO1 webpageLO2 online journalLO3 databaseLO4 ......

Outcomes

Contribution to discussionTextAnswers.......

Attributes

Tasks 1. Brainstorm a concept 2. Read a paper 3. Write short critique 4. Analyse data 5. .....

Pedagogy Subject Skills

mini activity

Rolesindividual learnerfacilitatorgroup participant......

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Final (ish)

nuggetmodel

Iterative development over several years from close discussions with project partners

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Final (ish)

nuggetmodel

Iterative development over several years from close discussions with project partners

Description

Aim

NameOutcome Type (t)

Sequence

Learning Outcome

NameSubjectDifficultyPre-requisitesApproach to L&T (t)

Environment (t)

Learning Activity

DescriptionLengthType (t)

Technique (t)

Interaction (t)

Task

Role Type (t)

Skill Type (t)

Role

NameType (t)

URL

Resource

NameType (t)

URL

Tool

Type (t)

Technique (t)

Assessment

*

*

*

*

* *

*

*

*

Learning Activity

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Comparison with IMS-LD

With a stable version of the nugget model, we have returned to IMS-LD and analysed our model in light of IMS-LD

Different aims of the two approaches

Lots of similarities

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Comparison with IMS-LD

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Now for a Demo…

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Experiences

What have we learnt? It is possible to provide a mapping from our

nugget model to that of IMS-LD But does not always provide a complete

mapping We can produce LD ‘templates’ Mapping onto the lower levels of LD To be more extensive/flexible, another level of

object composition would be useful

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Reflections for IMS-LD

Areas where metadata would be useful but not supported in IMS-LD. E.g. pre-requisite & learning objective metadata on intermediate

objects such as Activity-Structures

Experiences in the DialogPLUS project have shown that pedagogical metadata (such as our approach to learning and teaching) and general design are often the most reusable aspects of a learning design

Tools such as our nugget toolkit can (we hope) greatly improve the impact of IMS-LD by providing a more user-friendly environment for authoring units of learning