2. Overview
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» Background and context
» Current project
» How have fashions changed?
» Activity and feedback
» Next steps
Session outline
3. Family history
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» Design for Learning (D4L) Programme
2006-2008
» Curriculum Design Programme
2008-2012
» Curriculum Delivery Programme
2008-2010
» Assessment and Feedback Programme
2011 -2014
Jisc programmes
View our learning design ‘family tree’ at: https://padlet.com/gillferrell/LDfamily_tree
4. Design and delivery
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» Learner-centred approach
» The curriculum is more fluid
» Learning activities can allow for students
producing different outcomes each time
» Good design ensures that teaching can be
adaptive and responsive to learner needs
at any point
Designing learning experiences
5. Assessment
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» Central role of feedback
» Need for shared understanding of how
learner is progressing and what they need
to do to improve
» Analytics reveals issues such as
‘assessment bunching’
» Shared views avoid ‘assessment by stealth’
Assessment for learning
6. Employability and digital capability
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» Digital capability is now one of the key
employability skills
» A new kind of digital professional equipped
for the future world of work
The digital employee
“We need to be asking questions such as 'What does it
mean to be a nurse?' Being a healthcare professional
will mean something completely different in five years’
time. Increasingly nurses are becoming educators and
showing people how to monitor their own health and
respond to it.”
Helen Beetham, educational consultant
7. Learning analytics
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» Revealing patterns in design & in learner
interactions
» Driving enhancement-led review
» No simple relationship with learner
satisfaction but offers an informed
approach
Data informed design
8. Learning spaces
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» Interactive lecture theatres
» Active learning classrooms
» Multi-discipline laboratories
» Technology offers new possibilities to
simulate work environments
Active is everywhere
9. Learning design tools
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» Less emphasis on sharing and reuse of
designs
» More focus on tools that stimulate design
conversations
» Team-based approaches
» F2f supported by physical artefacts
» Still need for strategic approach to staff
development
Changing the conversation
10. An evolving model (1)
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11. An evolving model (2)
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12. An evolving model (3)
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13. 18/10/2017 Technology enhanced curricula: a decade of design
Over to you …
What is the essence of good
learning design?
Go to www.menti.com and use the
code 60 56 55
https://www.mentimeter.com/s/7e031ea95cbe65cfbaf7bfdff2bd5458/68134dd2d33e
14. Try it out
» Simple, graphical technique
» Non confrontational way to address
issues
» Good for addressing complex problems
with diverse stakeholders
» Surfaces perceptions
Checkland, P.B. 1993 Systems thinking, SystemsTheory.
Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
About rich pictures
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15. Activity
18/10/2017 Technology enhanced curricula: a decade of design
In your groups use a rich picture approach
to suggest what your ideal
learning design ‘ecosystem’
should look like
Think about:
• What are the factors involved e.g. pedagogy, physical space, tracking data, staff
development, leadership?
• How do they need to work together?
• Any barriers you may need to overcome?
• Any enablers you can add?
16. Next steps
» Review group
» Launch of an ‘elastic’ guide
» Joining the pedgagogies of
learning design and learning analytics
» Staff development resources
A new approach
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Contact
Sarah Knight
Senior Co-Design Manager,
Student Experience
sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk
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Gill Ferrell
gill@aspire-edu.org
Editor's Notes
Mention terminology and what we mean by learning/curriculum design.
Ask who has experience of designing courses/modules/lessons.
Mention how, although things like Carpe Diem and TESTA aren't Jisc programme outputs, they were developed in parallel with work on these programmes and refined as a result of the learning that came out of the programmes.
Content is no longer king
Designing activities and experiences rather than a fixed curriculum that is delivered in a set way.
Previous separation was artificial now continuum from macro-micro outcomes and sequencing.
Issues relating to how you manage that sequencing e.g. with people who teach a very small part of a course are very similar across FE and HE
'constructive alignment’ as in deciding what you are going to teach and then thinking about how you will assess that = more of an assessment of learning approach. AfL is more learner-centred.
Digital literacy has had its day as a term.
Staff aren't interested in digital literacy/capability for its own sake but engage when they understand the relevance to learner employability.
Initial focus of next-generation learning spaces still often focused around access to content i.e. starting with libraries and learning resource centresunderstanding importance of social learning and increased emphasis on informal learning spacesfinally tackling the last bastions of traditional teaching - classrooms and lecture theatres
Not new in FE but technology offers new possibilities
Just in time and on demand approaches are working well but really needs a strategic focus to ensure all staff have access to development and support before they first begin to design learning. Move in HE to a more holistic programme focused view to avoid issues caused by a modular approach.
Lots of great support sites for FE - need to try and make it easy for teachers to see what kind of tools can support the approaches they want to use.
Enabling teaching to be 'digital by design' rather than an add-on.
V quick summary of changes
Design & delivery separate here
Puts it into more of an ‘ecosystem’ but still very process-oriented
More holistic
Less of an FE/HE divide – some of issues very similar e.g. part time staff teaching only small part of curriculum.
Based on AI approach
Do mentimeter word cloud now
Think about: what are the elements involved, how they need to work together, any barriers you may need to overcome, any enablers you can add