A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities

Conole, Grainne and Fill, Karen (2005). A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. Journal of Interactive Media in Education(1)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Journal Item
ISSN:	1365-893X
Academic Unit/School:	Learning and Teaching Innovation (LTI) > Institute of Educational Technology (IET) Learning and Teaching Innovation (LTI)
Research Group:	Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Item ID:	11725
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Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2008 10:42
Last Modified:	02 May 2018 12:53
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/11725
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