Learning design tools for institutional change Diana Laurillard UCL Knowledge Lab

Learning design tools for institutional change The Learning Designer Research prototype Support for designing blended learning Being developed as UCL institutional support tool The Course Resource Appraisal Modeller Support for planning the move to blended learning

The Learning Designer

The Learning Designer: Designing blended learning The Learning Designer - Supporting teachers as experimental designers Prompted to consider six types of learning activity Select learning activity type: Read/Watch/Listen Inquiry Discussion Practice Collaboration Production Using feedback from pie-chart to reflect on the balance of activities Specify duration of activity Add a 20-minute discussion activity

Greater productivity – building and sharing designs The Learning Designer - Enabling teachers to be like a research community Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design

Greater productivity – building and sharing designs The Learning Designer - Enabling teachers to be like a research community Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design Explaining a complex concept (blood pressure)

Greater productivity – the design process The Learning Designer - Enabling teachers to be like a research community Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design Adapt the text to fit your topic Use appropriate resources Adapt to improve pedagogy Test your design with students Explaining a complex concept (cash flow) Explaining a complex concept (blood pressure)

Greater productivity – peer review The Learning Designer - Enabling teachers to be like a research community Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design Adapt the text to fit your topic Use appropriate resources Adapt to improve pedagogy Test your design with students Submit the design for review Submitted designs, reviews, revisions Explaining a complex concept (cash flow) Explaining a complex concept (blood pressure)

Greater productivity – using feedback The Learning Designer - Enabling teachers to be like a research community Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design 1 Test? – can the teacher test whether outcomes are met? Adapt the text to fit your topic Use appropriate resources Adapt to improve pedagogy Test your design with students Submit the design for review Use feedback and resubmit Explaining a complex concept (cash flow) Explaining a complex concept (blood pressure) 4 Technology? - good use of technology?

Greater productivity – sharing the burden of innovation The Learning Designer - Teachers acting as a research community, to: Build on the work of others Select a good experimental design Adapt it to fit your context Use appropriate resources Adapt to improve experiment Test your design in the world Submit it for review Use feedback and resubmit Build on the work of others Select a good pedagogic design Adapt the text to fit your topic Use appropriate resources Adapt to improve pedagogy Test your design with students Submit it for review Use feedback and resubmit Critical actions for digital support Build design tools that enable teachers to: use digital technology to enable more students to succeed discover and share new pedagogic knowledge build this community knowledge as scientists do

The Course Resource Appraisal Modeller

A modelling tool for thinking about the impact of moving to blended learning http://bit.ly/2gMATPe

The Course Resource Appraisal Modeller Define learner time and teacher time needed for each type of activity: Video lecture Peer discussion Using digital tools Assignments Peer reviews Tutor-supported forums… Returns feedback on learner experience and teaching costs

Modelling learning benefits vs teaching costs http://web.lkldev.ioe.ac.uk/cram/ Learning experience and… Teaching hours Break-even by Run 2 on these assumptions

Discussion: Could learning design tools for teachers help them move to blended learning?

Further details… http://bit.ly/2gMATPe http://bit.ly/2IcQJzU Routledge http://www.routledge.com/9780415803878/