1. Part 1: Design for Learning: an online workshop by the EDIT4L project JISC Online, June 11-12 2007 DPT part 2part 2 LAMS part 3part 3

2. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 EDIT4L - mission Ultimately this project is about improving the quality of learning and teaching at all levels within tertiary level education. The aim is to demonstrate that, in appropriate learning scenarios, improvement is both possible and viable for busy educational professionals.

3. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 What is EDIT4L? …Evaluation of Design and Implementation Tools for Learning One of the JISC funded Design for Learning (D4L) projects – 1 model of practice – 2 pedagogic planners – 5 implementation *** includes EDIT4L – 4 technical development – 1 support JISC list of all projects

4. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 EDIT4L aims To evaluate the application of the DialogPlus Toolkit (DPT) and Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) for the development of learning design skills of FE/HE teachers – through workshops at Southampton, Warwick and nationally To evaluate the use of the tools – through participants using DPT to design a learning activity and LAMS to create it To evaluate the impact of the workshops / tools and disseminate the findings

5. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 EDIT4L Partners Learning & Teaching Enhancement Unit – University of Southampton (lead partner) Karen Fill & Paul Riddy Centre for Academic Practice – University of Warwick Graham Lewis & Mark Childs

6. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Workshop process / your tasks Complete this section then review the slides describing DPT and LAMS – the background will help you with the design process Design a Learning activity using DPT – self-registration Instantiate it using LAMS (or another application) – you have been pre-registered Give brief feedback using the online forms, on the – workshop process – usability of the tools – interest in further use of the tool Join in the discussions A summary diagram is available from the workshop page

7. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 EDIT4L – overview of the tools DialogPlus toolkit (DPT) DialogPlus toolkit Learning Activity Management System User guides can be downloaded from the workshop web page

8. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Initial findings On the tools – will be presented post workshop via the website, to avoid any colouring of workshop participants impressions Some issues and questions follow -

9. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Issues 1) Changes in partner institutions – Up-dating of Initial Entry courses following discussions with staff and achools, and publication of HEA professional standards frameworkHEA professional standards framework – Re-organisation of partner institutions Educational Development (EdDev) units Stability of staff members 2) Take-up of workshops Some of the issues and questions in this and later slides will be raised in the workshop discussion forum

10. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Questions 1) What is Design for Learning? 2) What is the role of Initial Entry courses in developing educational design skills – Independent of technology – Using technology 3) How much interest is there in design for learning? 4) What tools do educators want, and what would they use?

11. Design for Learning: an online workshop by the EDIT4L project Part 2: Creating effective learning activities with the DialogPlus Toolkit JISC Online, June 11-12 th 2007 Intro part 1part 1 LAMS part 3part 3

12. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Creating effective learning activities This part of the workshop gives you the opportunity to design your learning activity using the DialogPlus toolkit (DPT). It’s important to go through a design process before you move onto building your activity using LAMS. ….first some background information, jump to slide 20 if you want to skip this slide 20

13. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Part 2: The DialogPlus Toolkit (DPT) developed at the as part of the DialogPlus projectDialogPlus A guidance toolkit for learning activity designers

14. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Background Concern about “a gap between the potential of the technologies and application of good pedagogical principles” in computer based learning and teaching. Professor Gráinne Conole, LTSN Conference, Belfast, 31st August 2004

15. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 What is a Toolkit? Wizards (more restrictive) e.g. Install Software Wizards PowerPoint template Frameworks (less restrictive) e.g. Salmon’s e-moderating framework, Laurillard’s conversational framework Toolkits e.g. Oliver & Conole’s Media Adviser

16. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Development A small team designed and developed the web-based toolkit to  help practitioners make theoretically informed decisions about the development of learning activities  store learning activity designs for adaptation and reuse  advance understanding of good practice in elearning.

17. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Learning Activity

18. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Context

19. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Learning and teaching approaches

20. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Tasks

21. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Benefits of using DPT A guided process that encourages users to think in a systematic way about important design elements in a learning activity Storage of designs – As works in progress – Completed (sharing, repurposing) Output of designs – Print or IMS-LD

22. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Using DPT summary - designing a nugget

23. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Designing a learning activity sequence Please look through the slides on LAMS first Follow the link from the conference workshop page to take you into DialogPlus. Experience shows that users gain a much better understanding of the design tool and process if they follow the steps given in the DPT user guide, available from the conference workshop page. Slides with reference information are at the end of the powerpoint

24. Design for Learning: an online workshop by the EDIT4L project Part 3: Authoring in LAMS (1) JISC Online, June 11-12 2007 Intropart 1part 1 DPT part 2part 2

25. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Authoring in LAMS This part of the workshop gives you the opportunity to author a Learning Activity sequence using LAMS. You should have previously designed your activity using the DialogPlus toolkit, but if you haven’t feel free to continue. …first some background

26. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS is an environment for creating sequences of learning activities and managing their use is a Learning Design inspired software tool – People participate in activities – A number of roles are possible – Activities are built around the use of resources

27. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS provides an easy to use interface for each role activities – are created from a number of design tools these – allow easy use of online resources – provide for real-time peer group discussions – allow the tutor to observe and join the discussions (in real time)

28. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS roles, each has a working environment / space Learner – work within a “class” to which are assigned activity sequences (AS) Author – build AS Monitor – attach AS to classes and enable working sessions. – monitor progress of class members, participate in discussions (Administrator) – user and class administration – system admin

29. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS learner environment Activity window Progress map Notepad

30. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS Authoring environment Tools Transition line

31. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Beginning with LAMS LAMS has an extensive built-in user guide Interactive tutorials available from: http://www.lamsinternational.com/documents/1.0/winks/ – Overview, Learner and Monitor, Authoring and the LAMS community – these are useful resources which walk through using a LAMS sequence, guided by audio annotations (based on a sequence on what makes an excellent teacher) LAMS usage guides http://www.lamsinternational.com/documentation/usage.php

32. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Beginning with LAMS (cont) Download the EDIT4L LAMS Beginners guide - available from this workshop webpage Follow sequence on next slide

33. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 Using LAMS in EDIT4L summary building an activity sequence

34. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS in EDIT4L Please – Fill in online questionnaire, linked from workshop page What did you like? What would you like to see implemented differently? Other comments? – Record experiences / discuss related questions in the workshop forum – To use your sequence outside of this workshop please contact Paul Riddy to discuss the processPaul Riddy

35. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 General references Evaluating the Quality of eLearning Resources. Riddy, P and Fill, K Networked Learning, April 2004 Evaluation of the Practitioner Trial of LAMS:Final Report. Masterman, L., and Lee, S.D. (2005), http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LAMS%20Final%20 Report.pdf http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LAMS%20Final%20 Report.pdf Making the Institutional Business Case for Introducing Learning Design Tools, Gayle Calverley, JIME 2005, http://www- jime.open.ac.uk/2005/16http://www- jime.open.ac.uk/2005/16

36. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 General references (cont) Embedding learning technology institutionally: Snr mgt, JISC briefing paper, 2003 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_smbp1 8embeddinglearningtech.aspx http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_smbp1 8embeddinglearningtech.aspx JISC Design for Learning programme information, 2006 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pe dagogy/elp_designlearn.aspx

37. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 DPT references Conole, G., Dyke, M., Oliver, M. and Seale, J. (2004). Mapping pedagogy and tools for effective learning design. Computers & Education, 43(1-2), 17-33. Conole G. and Fill, K. (2005). A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2005/08. Laurillard, D. (2002). Rethinking University Teaching (2nd ed.). London: RoutledgeFalmer.

38. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 DPT references (cont) Mayes, T. and De Freitas, S. (2004). 'Review of e- learning theories, frameworks and models', JISC- funded report on e-learning models. Oliver, M. & Conole, G. (2000). Assessing and enhancing quality using toolkits. Quality Assurance in Education, 8/1, pp. 32-37 Salmon, G. (2004). Emoderating: The key to teaching and learning online. London: Taylor and Francis Books.

39. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS resources LAMS Foundation http://lamsfoundation.org/ LAMS publications etc http://www.lamsinternational.com/CD0506/html/resource /index.html http://www.lamsinternational.com/CD0506/html/resource /index.html LAMS conference 2006 blogs http://lams.edublogs.org/

40. EDIT4L workshop, JISC online June 11-12 2007 LAMS latest LAMS news LAMS eLC – Combination of LAMS system and Learning Activities (LA) library – The LA library contains activity sequences mapped to the National Curriculum key stages 1 & 2 Updated version of LAMS 2 released Dec 06 – Many new features http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/uploads/9/91/CETIS.PedagogyECSIG.Apr07.ppt