Design thinking,
                             learning design
                              and creativity


                        Gráinne Conole
                     University of Leicester
                         28th September 2012
                    62nd ICEM conference, Nicosia
National Teaching
  Fellow 2012
Outline
•   Technologies trends
•   Technologies for learning
•   Teacher practice and paradoxes
•   Learning Design
    –   The 7Cs of Learning Design
    –   Learning Design timeline
    –   Mapping the field
    –   Socio-cultural perspectives
• Design-Based Research
• E-Pedagogies
• Resource Based Learning
    – OPAL
    – POERUP
• Conclusion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxoz/5655569031/
Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

•   Take the long view
•   The web is not the net
•   Disruption is a feature
•   Ecologies not economics
•   Complexity is the new reality
•   The network is now the computer
•   The web is evolving
•   Copyright or copywrong
       http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
       http://memex.naughtons.org/
Technological trends
•   Mobiles and e-books
•   Games-based learning
•   Learning analytics
•   Gesture-based learning
•   The Internet of things
•   Personalised learning
•   Cloud computing
•   Ubiquitous learning
• BYOD (Bring your own device)
The Internet of things




• People, resources, things
• Semantic connectivity
Google glasses project

• Can ‘see’ the Internet on
  glasses
• Context sensitive
  information
• Context lenses planned
Technologies for learning
•   Audio-graphics      •   Podcasts
•   Blogs               •   RSS feeds
•   E-Books             •   Second life
•   E-Portfolios        •   Social bookmarking
•   Games               •   Twitter
•   Instant Messaging   •   Video Mesaging
•   Mashups             •   Wikis
•   Mobile learning     •   Video clips and YouTube
•   Photo sharing       •   Video chat

                                     Rennie and Morrison, 2012
Teacher practices: paradoxes

• Technologiesnot
  extensively used
  (Molenda)
• Lack of uptake of OER
  (McAndrew et al.)
• Little use beyond early
  adopters (Rogers)            Pandora’s box
• Despite rhetoric and
  funding little evidence of
  transformation (Cuban,
        10
Promise and reality

Social and
participatory media
offer new ways to
communicate and
collaborate           Not fully exploited

Wealth of free        Replicating bad pedagogy
resources and tools
                      Lack of time and skills
Learning Design
  Shift frombelief-based, implicit
       approaches todesign-
   based,explicit approaches

          Learning Design
       A design-based approach to
         creation and support of
                 courses


 Encouragesreflective,scholarly
          practices
Promotessharing and discussion
                    http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
OULDI + Carpe Diem

Open University Learning
                                 Carpe Diem at Leicester
Design Initiative (OULDI)




                 The 7Cs of design and
                  delivery framework




   Cascading institutions:       Wider dissemination:
   Leicester, SAIDE, SPEED       conferences, events
Conceptualise
What do we want to design, who for and why?




                   The 7Cs
                 Framework




               Consolidate
         Evaluate and embed your design
Course Features
            http://linoit.com




Orange = Guidance and support
Blue = Content and activities
Purple = Reflection and demonstration
Green = Communication and collaboration
Course Map
Course/module summary:
Key words:
                    Guidance and support                                             Content and experience
Tools & resources             Responsibilities & relationships   Tools & resources              Responsibilities & relationships
1.                                                               1.
2.                                                               2.
3.                                                               3.
4.                                                               4.
5.                                                               5.
6.                                                               6.
7.                                                               7.




               Reflection and demonstration                                   Communication and collaboration
Tools & resources             Responsibilities & relationships   Tools & resources              Responsibilities & relationships
1.                                                               1.
2.                                                               2.
3.                                                               3.
4.                                                               4.
5.                                                               5.
6.                                                               6.
7.                                                               7.
Activity
Profile


           http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash

           http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel
Storyboard
 http://linoit.com
Resource Audit
                                          Format
  Content (under
the appropriate                                                    Other (e.g.
                      Text &                        Slides (e.g.
licences)                         Audio    Video                     Adobe
                     graphics                      PowerPoint)
                                                                   Presenter)


What I find and
reuse as is


What I find, tweak
and use


What I find,
repurpose and use


What I create for
this module
SPEED
        http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/speed


• JISC-funded, Transformation
• Embed benefits from DUCKLING and
  7Cs to:
   –   Liverpool John Moores
   –   London South Bank
   –   Northampton
   –   Derby
• Repackage resources into 3 categories:
   – Course Design
   – Activity Design
                                                                   Free image courtesy of
   – Moderating Online                                             FreeDigitalPhotos.net
• Resources available as OERs
Evaluation of 7Cs




                    Ming Nie
Socio-cultural perspectives
                  Mediating
                                            Design Mediating Artefacts
                                            Concepts
                  Artefacts (MA)
                                            Tools
                                            Dialogues
                                            Activities

                  Creates               Learning activity
    Teacher                             or Resource       Has an          Design
                                                          inherent



Research focus
What Mediating Artefacts do teachers use?       Other teachers and learners
What Mediating Artefacts can we create to       can use or repurpose
guide the design process?
                                                         Vygotsky, Activity Theory
Activity Theory
                  Mediating
                  Artefacts (MA)




                  Creates          Learning activity
                                   or Resource
        Teacher



                                       Division of
Rules             Community              labour
Design-Based Research


A systematic, but flexible methodology aimed to
improve educational practice through iterative
analysis, design, development and implementation,
based on collaboration between researchers and
practitioners in real-world settings, and leading to
contextually-sensitive design principles and theories.



                                Wang and Hannafin, 2005
• Means of dealing with real learning contexts
• Iterative: design, implementation, evaluation, refine
• Gives rich insights into complex dynamics
Facets
• Make assumptions and
  theoretical bases explicit
• Collect multipletypes of data
• Conduct ongoing data analysis
• Invite multiple voices to
  critique
• Have multiple accountability
  structures
• Engage in dialecticamong
  theory, design and extant
  literature


                                    Barab, 2006
DBR and
 Learning Design

• Builds on theory & prior   • Builds on ID, OER, Ped Patterns
  research                     research etc.
• Pragmatic                  • Practical tools & resources
• Collaborative              • Work with practitioners
• Contextual                 • Real, authentic contexts
• Integrative                • Mixed-method approach
• Iterative – problem,       • Problem, implementation,
  solution, evaluation         evaluation and refinement
• Adaptive and flexible      • Agile, based on practice
• Generalisation             • Coherent LD framework
Problem and solution
• Teachers want
   – Examples of good
     practice
   – Others to talk to
• Solution
   – Social networking site
   – Best of web 2.0
   – Iterative design and
     evaluation               http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Mayes & De Freitas, 2004
Pedagogies of e-learning                          Conole 2010
 E-Assessment                                                 Inquiry learning
 Drill & practice                                             Collective intelligence
                                                              Resource-based
                    Associative           Constructivist
                    Focus on individual   Building on prior
                    Learning through      knowledge
                    association and       Task-orientated
                    reinforcement

                     A



                    Situative             Connectivist
                    Learning through      Learning in a
                    social interaction    networked
                    Learning in context   environment           Reflective &
Experiential,
Problem-based                                                   dialogic learning,
Role play                                                       Personalised
                                                                learning
E-Assessment, drill and practice
Mobile learning




Study calendars
E-books
Learning resources
Online modules
Annotation tools
Mind mapping tools
Communication mechanisms
Collective intelligence
Situated learning and role play




Archeological digs
Medical wards
Art exhibitions
Cyber-law
Virtual language exchange
Beyond formal schooling
Resource-based learning
• Over ten years of the OER
  movement
• Hundreds of OER repositories
  worldwide
• Evaluation shows lack of
  uptake by teachers and
  learners
• Shift from development to
  community building and
  articulation of OER practice

                             Open Educational Resources
The OPAL metromap




  http://www.oer-quality.org/
Outputs
•   Inventory of more than 100 OER initiatives
•   11 country reports and 13 mini-reports
•   7 in-depth case studies
•   3 EU-wide policy papers
•   7 options brief packs for EU nations/regions
Country reports: key themes
• Diversity of educational contexts and maturity
  of internet provision and use of e-learning
• Differences in policy support and funding for
  OER initiatives
• Diversity from basic OER awareness to OER
  maturity and embedding
• Few national OER initiatives
UK Country Report
• Funding mainly from government – top-down
• Funding mainly on production/producers, little
  on end-users or impact on learning
• Mainly HE/FE, little school-based
• Most institutions don’t have an OER strategy
• Lots on cascading and transferring of experience
• Most institutions have an OER repository
• Related work: iTunesU and MOOCs         Ming Nie
Massive
                                                        Open
                                                        Online
                                                        Course




http://www.olds.ac.uk/



           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
Disaggregation of education




                       OERu
                     Rory McGreal
Conclusion
• Disaggregation:
  resources, support,
  learning pathways and
  accreditation
• What is the role of
  traditional institutions?
• How can we harness
  the power of new
  media?

                   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/
http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance
                    grainne.conole@le.ac.uk
                    http://e4innovation.com
Useful sites and resources
• OULDI website
  http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
• Carpe Diem website
  http://www.le.ac.uk/carpediem
• 7CsOER page
  http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/beyond-
  distance-research-alliance/7cs-workshop-resources
• Cloudworkshttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/vie
  w/2406
• Slideshare
http://tinyurl.com/7cs-bdra-11april

Conole icem keynote_final_28_sept

  • 1.
    Design thinking, learning design and creativity Gráinne Conole University of Leicester 28th September 2012 62nd ICEM conference, Nicosia National Teaching Fellow 2012
  • 2.
    Outline • Technologies trends • Technologies for learning • Teacher practice and paradoxes • Learning Design – The 7Cs of Learning Design – Learning Design timeline – Mapping the field – Socio-cultural perspectives • Design-Based Research • E-Pedagogies • Resource Based Learning – OPAL – POERUP • Conclusion
  • 3.
  • 4.
    Gutenberg to Zuckerberg • Take the long view • The web is not the net • Disruption is a feature • Ecologies not economics • Complexity is the new reality • The network is now the computer • The web is evolving • Copyright or copywrong http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/ http://memex.naughtons.org/
  • 5.
    Technological trends • Mobiles and e-books • Games-based learning • Learning analytics • Gesture-based learning • The Internet of things • Personalised learning • Cloud computing • Ubiquitous learning • BYOD (Bring your own device)
  • 6.
    The Internet ofthings • People, resources, things • Semantic connectivity
  • 7.
    Google glasses project •Can ‘see’ the Internet on glasses • Context sensitive information • Context lenses planned
  • 8.
    Technologies for learning • Audio-graphics • Podcasts • Blogs • RSS feeds • E-Books • Second life • E-Portfolios • Social bookmarking • Games • Twitter • Instant Messaging • Video Mesaging • Mashups • Wikis • Mobile learning • Video clips and YouTube • Photo sharing • Video chat Rennie and Morrison, 2012
  • 10.
    Teacher practices: paradoxes •Technologiesnot extensively used (Molenda) • Lack of uptake of OER (McAndrew et al.) • Little use beyond early adopters (Rogers) Pandora’s box • Despite rhetoric and funding little evidence of transformation (Cuban, 10
  • 11.
    Promise and reality Socialand participatory media offer new ways to communicate and collaborate Not fully exploited Wealth of free Replicating bad pedagogy resources and tools Lack of time and skills
  • 12.
    Learning Design Shift frombelief-based, implicit approaches todesign- based,explicit approaches Learning Design A design-based approach to creation and support of courses Encouragesreflective,scholarly practices Promotessharing and discussion http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
  • 13.
    OULDI + CarpeDiem Open University Learning Carpe Diem at Leicester Design Initiative (OULDI) The 7Cs of design and delivery framework Cascading institutions: Wider dissemination: Leicester, SAIDE, SPEED conferences, events
  • 14.
    Conceptualise What do wewant to design, who for and why? The 7Cs Framework Consolidate Evaluate and embed your design
  • 15.
    Course Features http://linoit.com Orange = Guidance and support Blue = Content and activities Purple = Reflection and demonstration Green = Communication and collaboration
  • 16.
    Course Map Course/module summary: Keywords: Guidance and support Content and experience Tools & resources Responsibilities & relationships Tools & resources Responsibilities & relationships 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. Reflection and demonstration Communication and collaboration Tools & resources Responsibilities & relationships Tools & resources Responsibilities & relationships 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7.
  • 17.
    Activity Profile http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel
  • 18.
  • 19.
    Resource Audit Format Content (under the appropriate Other (e.g. Text & Slides (e.g. licences) Audio Video Adobe graphics PowerPoint) Presenter) What I find and reuse as is What I find, tweak and use What I find, repurpose and use What I create for this module
  • 20.
    SPEED http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/speed • JISC-funded, Transformation • Embed benefits from DUCKLING and 7Cs to: – Liverpool John Moores – London South Bank – Northampton – Derby • Repackage resources into 3 categories: – Course Design – Activity Design Free image courtesy of – Moderating Online FreeDigitalPhotos.net • Resources available as OERs
  • 21.
  • 24.
    Socio-cultural perspectives Mediating Design Mediating Artefacts Concepts Artefacts (MA) Tools Dialogues Activities Creates Learning activity Teacher or Resource Has an Design inherent Research focus What Mediating Artefacts do teachers use? Other teachers and learners What Mediating Artefacts can we create to can use or repurpose guide the design process? Vygotsky, Activity Theory
  • 25.
    Activity Theory Mediating Artefacts (MA) Creates Learning activity or Resource Teacher Division of Rules Community labour
  • 26.
    Design-Based Research A systematic,but flexible methodology aimed to improve educational practice through iterative analysis, design, development and implementation, based on collaboration between researchers and practitioners in real-world settings, and leading to contextually-sensitive design principles and theories. Wang and Hannafin, 2005
  • 27.
    • Means ofdealing with real learning contexts • Iterative: design, implementation, evaluation, refine • Gives rich insights into complex dynamics
  • 28.
    Facets • Make assumptionsand theoretical bases explicit • Collect multipletypes of data • Conduct ongoing data analysis • Invite multiple voices to critique • Have multiple accountability structures • Engage in dialecticamong theory, design and extant literature Barab, 2006
  • 29.
    DBR and LearningDesign • Builds on theory & prior • Builds on ID, OER, Ped Patterns research research etc. • Pragmatic • Practical tools & resources • Collaborative • Work with practitioners • Contextual • Real, authentic contexts • Integrative • Mixed-method approach • Iterative – problem, • Problem, implementation, solution, evaluation evaluation and refinement • Adaptive and flexible • Agile, based on practice • Generalisation • Coherent LD framework
  • 30.
    Problem and solution •Teachers want – Examples of good practice – Others to talk to • Solution – Social networking site – Best of web 2.0 – Iterative design and evaluation http://cloudworks.ac.uk
  • 31.
    Mayes & DeFreitas, 2004 Pedagogies of e-learning Conole 2010 E-Assessment Inquiry learning Drill & practice Collective intelligence Resource-based Associative Constructivist Focus on individual Building on prior Learning through knowledge association and Task-orientated reinforcement A Situative Connectivist Learning through Learning in a social interaction networked Learning in context environment Reflective & Experiential, Problem-based dialogic learning, Role play Personalised learning
  • 32.
  • 33.
    Mobile learning Study calendars E-books Learningresources Online modules Annotation tools Mind mapping tools Communication mechanisms
  • 34.
  • 35.
    Situated learning androle play Archeological digs Medical wards Art exhibitions Cyber-law Virtual language exchange Beyond formal schooling
  • 36.
    Resource-based learning • Overten years of the OER movement • Hundreds of OER repositories worldwide • Evaluation shows lack of uptake by teachers and learners • Shift from development to community building and articulation of OER practice Open Educational Resources
  • 37.
    The OPAL metromap http://www.oer-quality.org/
  • 38.
    Outputs • Inventory of more than 100 OER initiatives • 11 country reports and 13 mini-reports • 7 in-depth case studies • 3 EU-wide policy papers • 7 options brief packs for EU nations/regions
  • 39.
    Country reports: keythemes • Diversity of educational contexts and maturity of internet provision and use of e-learning • Differences in policy support and funding for OER initiatives • Diversity from basic OER awareness to OER maturity and embedding • Few national OER initiatives
  • 40.
    UK Country Report •Funding mainly from government – top-down • Funding mainly on production/producers, little on end-users or impact on learning • Mainly HE/FE, little school-based • Most institutions don’t have an OER strategy • Lots on cascading and transferring of experience • Most institutions have an OER repository • Related work: iTunesU and MOOCs Ming Nie
  • 41.
    Massive Open Online Course http://www.olds.ac.uk/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
  • 42.
  • 43.
    Conclusion • Disaggregation: resources, support, learning pathways and accreditation • What is the role of traditional institutions? • How can we harness the power of new media? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/
  • 44.
  • 45.
    Useful sites andresources • OULDI website http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/ • Carpe Diem website http://www.le.ac.uk/carpediem • 7CsOER page http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/beyond- distance-research-alliance/7cs-workshop-resources • Cloudworkshttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/vie w/2406 • Slideshare http://tinyurl.com/7cs-bdra-11april

Editor's Notes

  • #43 Free-tuition institutions are growing. These non-profit institutions are using OER. However, credible solutions for providing assessment and credentialisation services are neededhttp://www.onlineschools.org/inside-online-schools/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Free.jpg