Category Archives: learning design
Learning outcomes, concepts and media
Some quick notes about mapping relationshops between learning activitites, the media through which activities can be delivered, the concepts that the activities are intended to teach, and the learning outcomes that are presented to students. 1 A picture showing the … Continue reading
Open Learning: Bridge to Success – reflections after meeting with Gary and Guy
The module Y162 “Starting with Maths” ‘ requires use of a scientific calculator. The course material includes a guide to the TI-30XA calculator which explains how to use it in the context of the module. Here is a picture of … Continue reading
Coding Compendium / CompendiumLD links and transclusions in SVG
This post follows on from my last one, adding some thoughts about the way Compendium links can be encoded in SVG, a way that permits the links to be straight lines or any sor of arc or curve. There’s also … Continue reading
Design visualisation and mapping for the web using SVG
This post is about a way to share the visual representations of learning activities in particular, and visual representations of linked ideas in general (go straight to an example). This general category of ‘visual representation of linked ideas’ includes any … Continue reading
Visualising the process and products of learning design
I will be at CAL ’09 next week in Brighton, and am looking forward to it, in particular some of the sessions and papers which include work from the JISC Curriculum design call. For example, the “challenges of the design … Continue reading
Timing information in CompendiumLD
I have been working on a new feature for CompendiumLD which allows the user (designer) to specify how long they expect each task within an activity will take. Using this new feature the designer can specify that a particular task … Continue reading
Video annotation in Compendium – applications in learning design?
Simon Buckingham-Shum has recently described early work which will enable a user to annotate a video within Compendium. He writes that this development will enable “not only the usual temporal annotation of video, but adding a spatial dimension so that … Continue reading
LAMS conference, Cadiz, 26th June
Finally got connected to wi-fi (not too difficult, but more so than it should be), so can start blogging. These are notes taken as the presentations occurred….. Stephen Downes keynote Stephen Downes ( super-blogger ) is just about to start … Continue reading
Tag cloud for our learning design LAMS conference paper
To amuse myself I’ve just put the text of our paper “CompendiumLD – a tool for effective, efficient and creative learning design” through the tag cloud generator at http://tagcrowd.com. Here’s the result; it’s not that surprising I suppose, though I … Continue reading
