Learning Design: A Handbook on Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and TrainingRob Koper, Colin Tattersall E-learning is still in its infancy. This can be seen both in the limited pedagogical quality and lack of portability of e-learning content, and in the lack of user-friendly tools to exploit the opportunities offered by current technologies. To be successful, e-learning must offer effective and attractive courses and programmes to learners, while at the same time providing a pleasant and effective work environment for staff members who have the task to develop course materials, plan the learning processes, provide tutoring, and assess performance. To overcome these deficiencies, the IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. released the Learning Design Specification in 2003. With Learning Design it is possible to develop and present advanced, interoperable e-learning courses embracing educational role and game playing methods, problem-based learning, learning community approaches, adaptivity and peer coaching and assessment methods. In this handbook Koper and Tattersall have put together contributions from members of the "Valkenburg Group", consisting of 33 experts deeply involved in e-learning and more specifically learning design. The result is a rich and lasting source of information for both e-learning course and tool developers, providing information about the specification itself, how to implement it in practice, what tools to use, and what pitfalls to avoid. The book not only reports first experiences, but also goes beyond the current state of the art by looking at future prospects and emerging applications. |
Contents
Specification Architectures and Tools 1 An Introduction to Learning Design 2 The Learning Design Specification | 2 |
Architectures to Support Authoring and Con tent Management with Learning Design | 3 |
An Architecture for the Delivery of Elearning Courses | 4 |
An Architecture for Learning Design Engines | 5 |
A Reference Implementation of a Learning De sign Engine | 6 |
The Learning Design Specification | 21 |
Architectures to Support Authoring and Content Management with | 41 |
An Architecture for the Delivery of Elearning Courses 63 4 1 Introduction | 63 |
Collaboration in Learning Design Using Peer toPeer Technologies | 203 |
Designing Adaptive Learning Environments | 214 |
Designing Educational Games | 227 |
Designing Learning Networks for Lifelong Learners | 239 |
How to Integrate Learning Design into Existing Practice 253 15 1 Introduction | 253 |
How to Integrate Learning Design into Existing Practice | 263 |
Experience | 268 |
Applying Learning Design to SelfDirected Learning | 271 |
An Architecture for Learning Design Engines 75 5 1 Introduction | 75 |
A Reference Implementation of a Learning Design Engine 91 6 1 Introduction | 91 |
Learning Design Tools | 109 |
Designing Elearning Courses | 136 |
Basic Design Procedures for Elearning Courses | 139 |
Acknowledgements | 160 |
An Instructional Engineering Method and Tool for the Design of Units of Learning | 161 |
The editors and authors wish to thank the management and staff of | 177 |
Integrating Assessment into Elearning Courses | 185 |
Applying Learning Design to Supported Open Learning 281 17 1 Introduction | 281 |
Applying Learning Design to Support Open Learning 18 Using Learning Design to Support Design and Runtime Adaptation | 291 |
The Edubox Learning Design Player | 302 |
the Explor Sys tems Case 21 Challenges in the Wider Adoption of LD Two Exploratory Case Studies 22 A Learning Design Worked Example | 340 |
Appendix | 367 |
Glossary 387 | 386 |
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