Presentation given at the PCF8 on the online course INASP has developed for librarians in developing countries.

1. Bringing learning closer to
the workplace
An online course for librarians in developing
countries

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INASP
Research and knowledge
at the heart of development

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Library consortia
• Access to electronic resources
• Monitoring and evaluation of usage

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M&E workshops
Cost
Numbers
Readiness
Delayed application

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M&E online courses
Accessibility
At the point of need
Immediate application
Online courses on M&E

6. Approach
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7. Approach
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Learning !
Design

8. Learning Design
• Explicit
• Collaborative (team work)
• Reflective
• Iterative
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9. Learning Designer
• Free, open source, web-based tool
• Conversational Framework (Laurillard,
1993, 2002)
• Puts learner experience at the heart of
design process
• It supports sharing and reuse of learning
designs within the community
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Learning
outcomes
Learning
/me
Learning Design

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Learning Design
Teaching
and
Learning
Ac/vi/es
(TLA)
/meline

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6
TLAs
types
• Read/watch/listen
• Inquiry
• Produc/on
• Prac/ce
• Collabora/on
• Discussion
Learning Design
Other
proper/es
of
TLAs
• dura/on
in
minutes
• group
size
• teacher
contact/not
• resources
aGached
Feedback
on
the
overall
distribu/on
of
TLAs

13. Approach
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workplace!

14. • Points for reflection
• Short activities to practice
skills or consider a
problem
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1. Guided readings

15. 2. Course project / local teams
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16. Approach
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ownership!

17. Ownership
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18. Ownership
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• Self-study but with social presence
• No expert to go to, only light-touch
moderation
• Own learning goals / own pace…
• …But towards the final product

19. Pilot
• 23 participants from 5 consortia (Ghana,
Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka)
• Key questions:
– Does the course support immediate
application of learning in practice?
– Can it be delivered in a non-facilitated mode?
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YES
YES

20. Key challenges
• 11 out of 23 completed the course project
• Reasons:
– Pilot: Some “just wanted to see the course”
– Readiness
– Online learning imposed on top of other things
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21. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
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INASP:
www.inasp.info
Joanna
Wild:
jwild@inasp.info
Learning
Designer:
learningdesigner.org