Workshop Leaders

• Charalambos Vrasidas, CARDET, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
• Gráinne Conole, The Open University, UK
• Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Content

This workshop will give practitioners, instructional designers, educators and content experts opportunities to explore ways of representing learning designs, share them and discuss them using Web 2.0 technologies. Examples and case studies of Open Educational Resources projects will be discussed.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in learning design and pedagogical patterns research with teachers, educational designers, content experts and teaching practitioners to exchange ideas on learning design and share their experiences of evaluating the application of various proposed approaches in practice.

Proposed Agenda

First, an overview of different types of learning design representations (in addition to LD tools) will be given. There will be a discussion on the way these can be used in different contexts. Then, any approaches relating to sharing, discussing and peer reviewing of learning designs in Web 2.0 spaces (e.g. Cloudworks) will be analysed and discussed.

After this introduction, participants will form groups and participate in hands-on activities which will give them an insight into some of the issues involved in making design processes more explicit. For example, they will be asked to map specific teaching strategies (e.g. Jigsaw, TPS, role-playing) in a learning design using the most appropriate types of learning design representations. The outcomes of the hands-on activities will be discussed at the end of the workshop. 

Target Audience

We invite educators, practitioners, instructional designers and content experts to attend this workshop. Participants will become acquainted with approaches to representing learning designs and will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities and join discussions about the joint development of learning designs and Open Educational practices, which can lead to improvements in the quality of e-learning across Europe. Participants do not need a thorough knowledge of learning design, but they should have some teaching experience or some experience of lesson planning and / or e-learning.

Requirements

Any instructional design and teaching experience will be an advantage.

Aims

• How can designs be represented and what is the value and use of different forms of representation?
• How can designs be shared and discussed; How might Web 2.0 approaches be used?
• How can designs be used by teachers and educational practitioners? How are different pedagogical approaches represented in different design representations?