Ako Aotearoa’s resource centre guide about: Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
Last updated by: ako_admin (Ako Administrator) on 27 February 2009 - 12:50pm
This is a guide to the Topic Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies in the Resource Centre. The purpose of this guide is to show the extent and diversity of material available, and to indicate how it is organised by providing links gathered under contextual headings. Content here is regularly updated.
Definition
Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies refers to teaching techniques, tools, and activities that successfully facilitate learning.
- Introductory material
- Discipline-specific material
- Projects and Communities
- Technology-related material
- Other material
- Research and Implementation Projects
Introductory material about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
- For a concise primer to tertiary teaching and learning design and strategy see Signposts: a Professional Development Resource for New Teaching Staff in the Tertiary Sector (Judith Honeyfield, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic). This downloadable resource for beginning tertiary teachers, and with its clear statements of current principles and evidence-based practice, is itself an exemplary model of design and strategy.
- LDNet (Learning Design Network) is a community on this site that is specifically interested in Learning Design. It describes and links to a large number of useful resources in this area and provides a forum for people interested in learning design to discuss ideas.
Discipline-specific material about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
- The Teaching Profiles of the winners of the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awardees are inspiring stories of how these excellent teachers approach their teaching within their own discipline (from the Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence)
- The UK Higher Education Academy’s subject centres offer a helpful overview of how subject specific resources are organised and supported in the
- University of Canterbury teachers’ accounts of their subject practice are covered in the University of Canterbury’s Teaching and Learning Case Studies
- Other discipline-specific material includes items on teaching physics, maths, building and construction, physiotherapy, psychology, nursing, electronic commerce, science and engineering, science and technology and journalism.
- The Discipline-based Journals Directory is a useful resource for those looking for particular and detailed information.
Projects and Communities about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
- The Inquiry-based Learning project (Rachel Spronken-Smith, University of Otago).
- Learning design network community LDNet (John Delany).
- Tools and Techniques for Scenario-based e-Learning (Terry Stewart, Massey University).
Technology-related material about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
There are several technology-related resources of interest including: Technology supported learning database; eCollaboration in learning, teaching and research; The impact of web-based lecture technologies; Ngā kiwai kete: The e-learning toolbox; e-Portfolio application ‘Mahara’; and Flexible learning in nursing programmes.
Other material about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
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Research and Implementation Projects about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies
See entries about Learning Designs and Teaching Strategies in the our Register of Research and Implementation Projects
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