posted on 2011-10-26, 09:09authored byGráinne Conole, Karen Fill
Despite the plethora of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools and
resources available, practitioners are still not making effective use of e-learning to enrich
the student experience. This article describes a learning design toolkit which guides
practitioners through the process of creating pedagogically informed learning activities
which make effective use of appropriate tools and resources. This work is part of a digital
libraries project in which teaching staff at two universities in the UK and two in the USA
are collaborating to share e-learning resources in the subject domains of Physical,
Environmental and Human Geography. Finding, or creating, suitable e-learning resources
and embedding them in well designed learning activities can be both challenging and time
consuming. Sharing and adapting effective designs and solutions is both a stimulant and a
time saver. This article describes the background to the specification of a learning activities
design toolkit to support teachers as they create or adapt e-learning activities. This uses a
model of pedagogical approaches as a basis for developing effective learning design plans
and illustrates its use. The authors share their definition of a learning activity and
taxonomies for the constituent elements. Real examples are discussed to illustrate their
approach.
History
Citation
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2005 (08).
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Published in
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Publisher
Institute of Educational Technology (IET) -The Open University
issn
1365-893X
Copyright date
2005
Available date
2011-10-26
Publisher version
http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/index
Notes
Special Issue: Advances in Learning Design. The Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) is an open access journal. All articles are freely available from the publisher's website.