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http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=218 Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2 Print Friday 19 June 2009, 12:00pm - 2:00pm Emeritus Professor Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD * Location: LKL Auditorium Whether we are now at Web 2, Web 3 or Web 8, we can agree that after Web 1 came a surge of interoperability, user-centered design and mass collaboration. Web-based communities, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, and blogs, add up to a new cultural force. There has been little consideration of the changes this integrative cultural force brings to the ruling fragmentation of knowledge. This seminar will identify the hierarchy of knowledge structures in the construction of Western knowledge and suggest collective social learning as a synthesising framework consistent with the needs of Web 2 and above. * Director, Local Sustainability Project, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. Valerie works collaboratively with communities in Australia, Asia, Canada and Europe on whole-of-community change. Her latest books include "Social learning and environmental management: towards a sustainable future" 2005; "Leonardo's vision: a guide to collective learning and action" 2008 and "Tackling wicked problems: using the transdisciplinary imagination" In press, 2009.

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http://link.lkl.ac.uk/Dimitriadis Interweaving learning and assessment patterns in CSCL scripts Print Thursday 25 June 2009, 12:00am - 2:00pm Patterns and macro-scripts for supporting teachers with learning design Prof. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid Location: Large Seminar Room Learning design or scripting has drawn considerable attention in the field of CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning). Such an interest draws on research in flexible scaffolding of complex collaborative situations as well as on parallel research regarding Learning Design. This talk will address a pattern-based approach to CSCL macro-scripts as a means to support teachers in the Learning Design process. Besides a presentation of prior work on Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns and the WebCollage tool, this talk will describe current research efforts that aim at interweaving learning and assessment patterns. Finally, it will reflect on issues that may relate the patterns approach with the Learning Design and Open Educational Resources fields.

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Diana Laurillard's presentation for the formative e-assessment project's dessimination event: http://projects.lkl.ac.uk/feasst/april-28th/ A version of this presentation with animations is available at: http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/63498/CF-for-Feasst

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http://purl.org/planet/Groups.CAL09/MorWarburton/ This paper elaborates a methodology for sharing expertise using a design patterns approach. We - learners, teachers, researchers - work in settings where the accelerated progress of technology means that not just learning is changing, but the nature of change itself is changing. The question we explore is how can we effectively respond to developments that occur at such rapid pace. The first consequence we need to acknowledge is that the division of roles is being blurred. Teachers need to invest in continuous learning, learners can often take the role of teaching, and all are de-facto researchers: exploring and experimenting with new opportunities daily. The second, more complex and perhaps more vital recognition is that we are all learning designers. We design learning environment for ourselves and for others by choosing the tools and their configuration, we design our curriculum, choosing which new skills and practices to acquire and which to defer. We design learning experiences by carefully assembling tasks, tools, activities and social interactions. These observations call for a renewed attention to learning as a design science. Herbert Simon defined: "everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into desired ones" (Simon, 1969, p 129). Hence, design science is, in a nutshell, the science of making a better world. Design science needs a language of its own. A set of "scientific instruments" that include modes of capturing and sharing knowledge, and methods of establishing validity. Mor & Winters have argued that design patterns and pattern languages hold a promise in this respect, and propose a workshop model for participatory development of pattern languages in education (Mor & Winters, 2007; 2008). The Pattern Language Network project (http://www.patternlanguagenetwork.org) has further developed this methodology, and a set of on-line tools to support it, for pattern-based design research in education. This methodology is being used by communities of practitioners, developers and researchers to capture and share their expertise and examples of good practice as reusable design knowledge. Here, we show the value of this methodology as a way forward in tackling key design issues in teaching and learning supported by Web 2.0 technologies and virtual world spaces.

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Cognitive learning efficiency through the use of design patterns in teaching. Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Stephan Lukosch, Alexander Verbraeck, Edwin Valentin, Gert-Jan de Vreede for: http://purl.org/planet/Groups.CAL09/

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Keynote at e-Learning Patterns, Tübingen, March 4-6, 2009 http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/workshops/e-learning-patterns/ Video http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/workshops/e-learning-patterns/videos/Keynote1YishayMor.html http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/workshops/e-learning-patterns/videos/Keynote2YishayMor.html Abstract http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/workshops/e-learning-patterns/abstracts/patternscommunties.htm The construct of design pattern is often summarised as "the core of a solution to a problem in context". What, then, is the problem that design patterns solve, and in which contexts? As design patterns break new grounds in educational research and practice, challenging questions arise: how do we engage new audiences in the pattern paradigm? How do we adapt the form and modes of use of patterns to make them useful in diverse realms of practice? Why do we have such a strong conviction in the value of design patterns? The tradition of design patterns refers to concepts such as "timelessness" and "expertise". These are problematic in a world of accelerating change. Yet another fundamental principle is accentuated; the need to establish robust design languages capable of capturing the complexity of problems in our environment and offering verifiable solutions. I argue that design-level discourse is imperative in many critical domains of human activity, and that patterns should play a central role in such discourse. Over the last few years, my colleagues and I have been developing a methodology for participatory workshops for practical design patterns. This methodology has emerged from the "Learning Patterns" project, and is being refined by the "Pattern Language Network" project. In this talk, I will describe the methodology, its history and future plans, and provide some illustrative examples. I will also highlight some of the fundamental questions which is provokes.

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slides for: http://patternlanguagenetwork.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Groups.DigitalIdentities/

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Formative e-Assessment 4th practical enquiry day

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