Design for Learning: an online workshop by the EDIT4L project Part 2: Creating effective learning ac

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Design for Learning an online workshop by the
EDIT4L project Part 2 Creating effective
learning activities with the DialogPlus
Toolkit

• JISC Online, June 11-12th 2007

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Creating effective learning activities

• This part of the workshop gives you the
  opportunity to design your learning activity
  using the DialogPlus toolkit (DPT). Its
  important to go through a design process before
  you move onto building your activity using LAMS.
• .first some background information

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Part 2 The DialogPlus Toolkit (DPT)
A guidance toolkit for learning activity designers
developed at the
as part of the DialogPlus project
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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

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What is a Toolkit?
e.g. Oliver Conoles Media Adviser
Toolkits
Frameworks (less restrictive) e.g. Salmons
e-moderating framework, Laurillards
conversational framework
Wizards (more restrictive) e.g. Install
Software Wizards PowerPoint template
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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.

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Learning Activity
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Context
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Learning and teaching approaches
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Tasks
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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

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Design your learning activity sequence

• Follow the link from main 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 this conference
  presentation page.
• Slides with reference information follow

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Useful 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.

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Useful references

• 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.