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Representing Learning Designs – Making Design Explicit And Shareable, Gráinne Conole, Sandra Wills Jul 2013

Representing Learning Designs – Making Design Explicit And Shareable, Gráinne Conole, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

Most teachers' design practice is implicit and practice based, focusing primarily on discipline content. In recent years, a number of visual design representations have emerged that help guide teachers' design practice, enabling them to create explicit designs, which can then be shared and discussed with others. These design representations help guide the design process and help teachers to think beyond content to the learning activities the learners will be engaged with and the ultimate learner experience. The paper will describe the representations and draw on empirical evidence of their use in a range of contexts, including the Joint Information Systems …


A Visual Learning Design Representation To Facilitate Dissemination And Reuse Of Innovative Pedagogical Strategies In University Teaching, Shirley Agostinho, B. Harper, Ron Oliver, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills Jul 2013

A Visual Learning Design Representation To Facilitate Dissemination And Reuse Of Innovative Pedagogical Strategies In University Teaching, Shirley Agostinho, B. Harper, Ron Oliver, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

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How Well Do We Practice What We Preach? An Evaluation Of Teleteaching '96., Geraldine Lefoe, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

How Well Do We Practice What We Preach? An Evaluation Of Teleteaching '96., Geraldine Lefoe, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

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Formalising The Descriptions Of Learning Designs, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho Oct 2011

Formalising The Descriptions Of Learning Designs, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho

Sandra Wills

This paper describes an activity being undertaken by researchers involved in the AUTC funded Project: Information and Communication Technologies and Their Role in Flexible Learning. The project is seeking to investigate and develop generic and reusable frameworks for the provision of technology-enhanced high quality learning experiences in higher education. To achieve this, the researchers have been exploring ways to formalise generic descriptions of some learning designs that foster knowledge construction and problem solving. This paper provides a summary of the work that has been undertaken and describes the generic descriptions that have been developed in this process.


Developing Evaluation Frameworks For Assessing Quality Ict-Based Learning In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Shirley Agostinho Oct 2011

Developing Evaluation Frameworks For Assessing Quality Ict-Based Learning In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Shirley Agostinho

Sandra Wills

This paper describes the evaluation of high quality learning designs which are being selected for possible redevelopment in a National Project funded by the Australian University Teaching Committee (AUTC). The project focuses on “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Their Role in Flexible Learning” and is evaluating over 50 projects with a view to developing a range of software tools, templates and/or guidelines based on those that are de emed to be effective ICT - based learning projects. The approach is unique in that it tries to pinpoint the key attributes of ICT-based projects that make them suitable for application …


A Tool To Evaluate The Potential For An Ict-Based Learning Design To Foster "High-Quality Learning", Shirley Agostinho, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

A Tool To Evaluate The Potential For An Ict-Based Learning Design To Foster "High-Quality Learning", Shirley Agostinho, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

With the aim to facilitate sharing and uptake of high quality ICT-based learning designs amongst academics in higher education, the Australian Universities Teaching Committee funded project: Information and Communication Technologies (lCTs) and Their Role in Flexible Learning examined a number of existing high quality, ICT-based learning implementations to determine if the learning designs employed can be re-disseminated in the form of reusable guidelines, templates, and/or software tools. An evaluation instrument was developed to analyse the degree to which the learning designs have potential to foster high quality learning. This paper focuses on this instrument by describing how it was derived, …


Implementing Generic Learning Designs Based Upon Quality Ict Exemplars, J. Hedberg, R. Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, S. Agostinho Nov 2010

Implementing Generic Learning Designs Based Upon Quality Ict Exemplars, J. Hedberg, R. Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, S. Agostinho

Sandra Wills

Within the context of an AUTC funded Project: Information and Communication Technologies and Their Role in Flexible Learning, this paper presents an analysis of learning designs using ICTs and how this grounded approach might be a more useful structure to design effective learning environments. The project has developed generic or reusable frameworks for technology-enhanced high quality learning experiences in higher education and this paper will present several examples, of the original design and how the key elements were selected and developed for use by others. As this project is currently developing these generic exemplars of learning designs, the final presentation …