Abstract
<p class="commentary_div"><strong>Commentary on:</strong> Chapter 1: An Introduction to Learning Design. (Koper, 2005) <div class="abstract_container"> <strong>Abstract:</strong> One way to develop effective online courses is the use of learning design patterns, since patterns capture successful solutions. Pedagogical patterns are commonly created by human cognitive processing in "writer's workshops". We explore two ideas; first whether IMS Learning Design is suitable for detecting patterns in existing courses and secondly whether the use of inductive analyses is a suitable approach. We expect patterns to occur in the method section of a learning design, because here the process of teaching and learning is defined. We provide some suggestions for inductive techniques that could be applied to existing learning designs in order to detect patterns and discuss how the patterns could be used to create new learning designs. None of the suggested approaches are validated yet, but are intended as input for the ongoing discussion on patterns. </div> <p class="editors_container"> <strong>Editors:</strong> Colin Tattersall and Rob Koper.
Highlights
How do we develop effective online courses? According to Koper (2005) learning design rules capture learning design knowledge and can assist in developing the best suited learning design
At least three different approaches can be followed to arrive at learning design rules: (1) designs based on instructional theory, (2) designs based on best practices and (3) designs based on patterns in best practices
We offered some ideas on the suitability of the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) specification for describing patterns in learning designs
Summary
How do we develop effective online courses? According to Koper (2005) learning design rules capture learning design knowledge and can assist in developing the best suited learning design. A course pattern is an abstraction of a set of best practices to fulfil a recurrent design problem (Alexander, 1979) Such a pattern is a kind of template, including instructions and examples that can be filled in to create the new course. The use of pedagogical patterns is not new, the patterns usually have been created via deductive technologies, i.e. in "writer's workshops" where experts get together and write down the pattern in a specific format based on their experience and knowledge (Bergin, Eckstein, Manns, Sharp and Voelter, 2005; E-LEN, 2004; Hernández Leo, Asensio Pérez and Dimitriadis, 2004; Jones and Stewart, 1999; McAndrew, Goodyear and Dalziel, 2005). We suggest how these patterns can be used to construct new learning designs
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