4 essential goals in learning design
Follow-up to Second Arts Faculty E–learning Exhibition Lunch from Transversality - Robert O'Toole
Four problems (or challenges) are obvious. As Sarah Richardson of the History Online MA argues, these are in fact the same challenges that must be addressed by learning design in all higher education contexts (on site and distance). The challenges are:
- keeping students and the tutors focussed;
- keeping people connected (community) – communications and relations between tutors, tutors and students, students and their peers, as well as connections between the students and their departmental, faculty, subject and university communities;
- developing roles, responsibilities and identities, making them appropriate and well understood;
- supporting research, creativity and enterprise (for a definition of what I mean by this, see this article on research based learning).
With these challenges as the basis of the exhibition, my next task is to find showcase examples that demonstrate how our learning technologies support students and tutors in meeting these challenges. For example, I will show how a Sitebuilder term view calendar can be used to help define and keep course members effectively focussed.
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