Learning Design Support Environment for Teachers (UK)

A Technology Enhanced Learning project funded by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme

Link: https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/ldse

Project Introducton

"We are working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) to scaffold teachers’ decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. Through this iterative research-design process we hope to address the above issues and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL. We aim to lower the TEL threshold so that the majority of teachers can engage with it in a way that draws on good practice by others and is informed by the findings of pedagogical research, thereby optimising the benefits to their learners.
Our project goals are to:

1. Research the optimal model for an effective learning design support environment (LDSE)
2. Achieve an impact of the LDSE on teachers' practice in designing TEL
3. Identify the factors that are conducive to collaboration among teachers in designing TEL
4. Embed knowledge of teaching and learning in the learning design software architecture
5. Improve representations of the theory and practice of learning design with TEL

Watch Diana Laurillard's presentation "Evaluating Learning Designs through the Formal Representation of Learning Patterns" at the recent 2009 ALT-C conference in which she discusses the project