Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language

Mor, Yishay and Winters, Niall (2008). Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language. Journal of Interactive Media in Education(13),

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Abstract

Technologically enhanced learning environments raise complex challenges for their designers, developers and users. Design patterns and pattern languages have recently emerged as a potential framework for addressing some of these challenges. However, the uptake of design patterns has been slow outside of the computer science community. We argue that this is largely a consequence of a weak positioning of pattern languages, as a form of delivering expert knowledge to layperson, and suggest an alternative view: the development of a pattern language as a community endeavour. In terms of open education, the workshop model can be viewed as an open production process for developing educational resources, in our case design patterns. We propose a model of pattern elicitation workshops, in which collaborative development of a pattern language provides a framework for sharing design knowledge within interdisciplinary communities. This model was iteratively developed at five international conferences. It was then postulated as a design pattern itself, encompassing a series of practices and a set of supporting tools. We believe this model could be applied in a broad range of communities concerned with the development of open digital educational resources.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Copyright Holders:	2008 The Authors
ISSN:	1365-893X
Keywords:	design patterns; pattern languages; open learning; case studies; methodology; IDR; games; mathematics learning
Academic Unit/Department:	Other Departments > Other Departments
Related URLs:	http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/outcomes/...(Other)
Item ID:	30318
Depositing User:	Yishay Mor
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2012 16:17
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2012 11:27
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30318

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