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The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs CompendiumLD – a tool for effective , efficient and creative learning design Conference Item
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Brasher, Andrew |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | (2008). CompendiumLD – a tool for effective, efficient and creative learning design. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Developers and teachers go through a complex decision making process when designing new learning activities – working towards an effective pedagogical mix, combining resources, tools, student and tutor support. This paper describes CompendiumLD, a prototype tool we have built to support practitioners through the process of designing learning activities. We describe how the tool fits into our vision of a dynamic, interactive set of resources and system tools to support effective, efficient and creative learning design. It describes CompendiumLD's features and explains the rationale behind their development. It shows how the tool is intended to aid designers make choices, and plan developments, facilitating creativity and efficiency in the design process. In our conclusions we consider how such a system can support the design of effective learning activities. Introduction The Open University (OU) is currently undertaking a Learning Design project, the aim of which is twofold: a) to capture and represent practice through user consultation and case studies and b) to support the course design process through the development of a tool and associated The project consists of a number of activities – including requirements gathering and evaluation to better understand the design process, assimilation of a suite of learning design tools and resources and technical development. The paper concentrates on the initial phase of technical development – namely the development of a visualisation tool for learning design. Learning design as a process is still not well understood and hence specification of tools to support it is difficult. With this in mind we felt it was more appropriate to work with and adapt an existing tool, linking tool development with interactive evaluation of its use by designers and teachers. As explained by Conole and Weller, an existing mindmapping, argumentation tool, Compendium, was chosen and adapted for some initial trials. Compendium " is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas " The initial trails consisted of 8-faculty based workshops with over 100 participants and two external workshops at other institutions. The initial evaluation was positive, users found the tool easy to use and … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
