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Mor, Yishay and Winters, Niall
(2008).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/2008-13/
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 30350
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1365-893X
- Extra Information
- Special Issue: Researching open content in education
- Keywords
- design patterns; pattern languages; open learning; case studies; methodology; IDR; games; mathematics learning
- Academic Unit or School
- Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2008 The Authors
- Depositing User
- Yishay Mor