LD-Grid
| Manager(s) | |
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| Research field | Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) |
| Start date | 2011/04/01 |
| End date | 2012/05/31 |
| Status | completed |
| Website | visit |
Learning Design Grid (LD-Grid) aims to produce a concise, comprehensive and accessible set of resources which will empower educators and learners to participate in design discourse and practices in technology enhanced learning (TEL). These resources will enable learners and educators to collaboratively reflect on their goals and constraints, characterise contexts of learning, and devise viable means of achieving their goals within these contexts and in light of the constraints. LD-Grid is a theme team funded by the EU network of excellence STELLAR.
Social and mobile technologies offer learners unprecedented opportunities to create, organise, share and access knowledge. Such technologies effect potent learning environments, yet these are constantly shifting with escalating complexity. In order for educators to effectively orchestrate learning within this landscape they need to perceive themselves, and indeed to be perceived by society, as techno-pedagogical designers.
The aim of the LD-Grid theme team was to produce a concise, comprehensive and accessible set of resources which will empower educators and learners to participate in design discourse and practices in technology enhanced learning (TEL). These resources will enable learners and educators to collaboratively reflect on their goals and constraints, characterise contexts of learning, and devise viable means of achieving their goals within these contexts and in light of the constraints.
Project Outcomes
- A web-based, comprehensive mapping of representations of design knowledge in TEL and reviews of existing banks of design resources and tools in learning design.
- Several workshops including Art and Science of Learning Design (ASLD 2011), Theory and Practice of Learning Design at Online Educa 2011 (TPDL 2011) and at Designs for Learning Conference (TPDL 2012), and a workshop at the 2013 Alpine Rendezvous called "Teacher-led Inquiry and Learning Design: The Virtuous Circle". In addition, several papers were published (see the publications box on the right-hand side).
- A follow-up JISC co-funded massive open online course (MOOC) on learning design, which will air in early 2013.
- A follow-up project called METIS, in which the ACIS group at i5 is part of the consortium, and which is funded by the European Commission in the Lifelong Learning Programme. METIS commenced in November 2012 and will last for 28 months.
Partners
- University of Haifa, Israel
- RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- London Knowledge Lab, UK
- Lancaster University, UK
- University of Valladolid, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technology, Italy
Research staff
Theses
Publications
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Interactions for Learning as Expressed in an IMS LD Runtime Environment
Michael Derntl, Susanne Neumann, Petra Oberhuemer
Published in Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, 383-387
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Semi-automatic assembly of learning resources
Katrien Verbert, Xavier Ochoa, Michael Derntl, Martin Wolpers, Abelardo Pardo, Erik Duval
Published in Computers & Education, 59(4), 1257-1272 (2012)
Best full paper award at IEEE ICALT 2012 