The 7Cs of Learning Design and tools to support different types of activities

1. Learning Design
Prof. Gráinne Conole
7th – 9th May, 2018
Novotel Dubai Deira City Center

3. e4innovation.co.uk

4. Outline
• Overview of 7Cs of learning design
• Activities
– A1: How to ruin a course
– A2: Three common communication
tools
– A3: Course features
– A4: Personas
– A5: Course map
– A6: Resource audit

5. Outline
• Run through of other activities
– A7: Activity profile
– A8: HoTEL learning theories
– A9: : Using tools to promote
different types of activities
– A10: Story board
– A11: Evaluation

6. Promise and reality
• Articles
– Is technology changing learning and teaching?
– Pros and cons of using technology
– 6 challenges impeding technology use
Social media offer new
ways to communicate and
collaborate. Wealth of free
resources and tools
Not fully exploited
Replicating bad pedagogy
Lack the time and skills

7. Learning Design
• A pedagogically
informed approach to
design that makes
appropriate use of
technologies

8. What is learning design? (1)
Guidance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymouscollective/1899303123

9. What is learning design? (2)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/frawemedia/5187769740

10. What is learning design? (3)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10075621@N06/3810402230
Sharing

11. Learning Design
Shift from belief-based, implicit
approaches to design-based,
explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly
practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning Design
A design-based approach to
creation and support of
courses

12. The 7Cs of Learning Design
Conceptualise
Vision
CommunicateCreate ConsiderCollaborate
Activities
Combine
Synthesis
Consolidate
Implementation
https://bit.ly/2mOnqgt

13. A1: How to ruin a course
• List the ten ways in which technologies
can ruin a course
• Consider strategies to avoid these issues
Purpose: To consider the ways in which technologies can ruin a course
and creation of strategies to avoid these problems
E-tivity Rubric: hhttp://tinyurl.com/m3x32se

14. A1: Discussion

15. A2: Three common communication
tools
Purpose: To consider the use of three central, LMS-based tools for interaction
• Discussion forums
– A notice board where people can start new topics
or discussions or respond to existing ones
• Blogs
– An online journal or diary with posts in reverse
order (the last first) and options for people to
comment
• Wikis
– A set of web pages that people can add to or
modify
https://bit.ly/2jo7NIg

16. A2: Three common communication
tools
Discussion Forums Blogs Wikis
Question and answers
Ice breaker
Feedback
Topic discussion
Reflection
Collaboration
Problem solving
Encouraging participation
Ice breaker
Idea generation
Reflection
Express ideas
Summarising research
Communicating successes
and pitfalls
Dissemination of
information
Facilitates in the moment
thought!
Peer editing of a document
Resource collation
Creating a glossary of
terms or a reading lits
Idea development and
brainstorming
Collaboration
Project collaboration

17. A3: Course Features
Purpose: To consider the features you want to include in your
module/course, which will determine not only the look and feel of the
course, but also the nature of the learners’ experience.
https://bit.ly/2jnl7MT

18. A4: Student personas
Purpose: To envision the types of learners who will take the course
https://bit.ly/2FALbNg

19. A5: Course Map
Purpose: To start mapping out your module/course, including your plans for
guidance and support, content and the learner experience, reflection and
demonstration, and communication and collaboration.

20. A6: Resource audit
Purpose: To identify which free resources (Open Educational Resources) to
include in your course/module, how much they need adapting and which
new resources you need to create.
https://bit.ly/2I736R4

21. A7: Activity Profile
Purpose: To consider the balance of activity types that will be
included in your module/course.
Activity Profile Flash Widget
https://bit.ly/2JMviWy

22. • Explore the HoTEL learning theories site
• Constructivism: building on prior knowledge
– Provide an overview of a topic
– Find out what students already know about the
topic
– Adapt presentation based on students’ knowledge
– Get students to reflect on the topic and apply to
their own context
• Choose one theory and brainstorm what
activities could be used for it
A8: HoTEL learning theories
Purpose: To explore the learning theories and consider how they
can be applied.

23. • Tools can be classified as follows
– Presentation
– Communication
– Collaboration
– Brainstorming
– Reflection
– Feedback
– Assessment
– Recording
– Voting and response
– Annotation
– Curation
– File sharing
A9: Hands on use of tools
Purpose: Categorisation of tools for different purposes and
examples of free tools

24. Creating effective presentations
• Include an outline
• Keep text short
• Add an image (with URL)
• Use bitly.com to shorten URLs
• Subtle background
• Check spelling and grammar
• Have a logical structure
• Have a clear message
• Include a summary
• Include references
https://bit.ly/2JNuxMK

25. Presentation tools
• Facebook live
– Click on the live button
– Fb friends can see you
live
– You can see who had
joined
• Prezi
– An alternative to
Powerpoint
– Interactive presentation

26. Presentation tools
• https://bitly.com/
– To shorten URLs
• https://nearpod.com/
– Adapt a pool of existing
resources
– Create slides or upload
a PPT
– Add a poll

27. Presentation tools
• Google slides
– Can choose from a range
of themes
– Built for collaboration
• Youtube
– Create your own channel
– Upload and share videos
– Can see No. of views
• TedEd
– Watch
– Think
– Dig deeper
– Discuss

28. Effective moderation
• Clear introduction
• Guide the discussion
• Summarise and
encourage reflection
• Keep an eye on back
channel
• Answer questions
• Keep to time
• Record key points

29. Communication tools
• Skype
– Real-time video conferencing
– Can add chat and share
resources
– Can record sessions
• Twitter
– Micro-blogging
– Sharing resources
– Asking questions
– Serendipitous links

30. Communication tools
• WhatsApp
– Using your mobile
phone No. can send
limitless messages
– See when a message
has been delivered and
read
– Can set up groups
– Can send images and
video
• TodaysMeet
– Provides a backchannel

31. Communication tools
• Flipgrid
– Pose a question
– Students respond
with short videos
• Google sheets
– For discussions

32. Benefits of collaboration
• Work together to achieve a common goal
• Shared vision and purpose
• Clear communication
• Assign roles
• Division of labour
• Trust and respect

33. Collaboration tools
• Kanban

34. Collaboration tools
• Google wiki
– Can co-edit
– Add text, URLs, images
and videos
– Invite only or open URL
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35. Benefits of brainstorming
• Useful way of generating
ideas on a topic
• Individually or in a group
• Build on the ideas of
others
• Ideas can be grouped
• Generate solutions to a
problem

36. Brainstorming tools
• Linoit
– Create a canvas
– Add ‘stickies’
– Use different colours
• Padlet
– Post and share notes
– Add links, images and
videos
– Collaborate online

37. Benefits of reflection
• Thinking about and
reflecting on what
you have learnt
• Use a journal or blog
to collect ideas and
thoughts
• Relate new concepts
to prior experience
• Critical evaluation of
learning experience
• Develop an action
plan

38. Reflection tools
• Sites to create a blog
online
– Wordpress.com
– https://www.theedublogge
r.com
• Create a blog online
• Can add images, videos
and URLs
• Categorise and tag posts

39. Feedback
• There are 4 types
– Diagnostic, formative,
summative and peer
• Benefits
– Helps learners understand
and gives them guidance on
how to improve their
learning
– Evidence of achievement of
learning outcomes
– Accreditation
https://bit.ly/2rj1SYc

40. Feedback tools
• Annotate word files
– Highlight text and
add comments
• Give audio
feedback
– Provides more
personalised and
motivating feedback

41. Feedback tools
• Formative
– https://goformativ
e.com/formatives
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– Guest code:
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42. Assessment tools
• E_portofolios
– Word documents
– Google Drive
– Dropbox
– Pathbrite

43. Benefits of recording
• Enhance text by adding audio
or video
• Students can
– Listen/watch numerous times
– Can stop and rewind
– Can take notes
• Use video to
– Provide a welcoming
message
– Demonstrate something
• Use audio to
– Record a lecture
– Provide personalised
feedback

44. Recording tools
• iPhone
• Audacity
– Record audio
– Edit
– Share
• Voicethread
– Pose a question
with text, audio or
video
– Invite people to
comment
• Screen-o-matic

45. Benefits of voting and response
• Check class understanding
• Makes lectures more
interactive
• Enhances learning and
motivation
• Uses
– Formative feedback
– Checking students
preparation for a class
– Adapt content to meet the
needs of the students
– Use to stimulate debate

46. Voting and response tools
• Facebook poll
• Easypolls

47. Voting and response tools

48. Benefits of annotation
• Add
– Questions
– Comments
– Links
– Keywords
• Highlight text
• Summarise text
• Simplify difficult text
• A deeper and more active form
of reading
• More likely to retain knowledge
• Relate to own experience

49. Annotation tools
• Diigo
– Collate resources
– Add notes

50. Annotation tools
• A.nnotate

51. Benefits of curation
• Can save time
• Co-locate related
resources
• Share with others
• An effective
learning approach
• Follow curation lists
of others with
shared interests

52. Curation tools
• Scoopit
– Create a topic
– Add URLs,
documents
• Pinterist
– Create boards
– Add URLs,
documents

53. Benefits of file sharing
• Can share resources with
specific people or make
open to anyone
• Can see number of views
• Can co-locate related
resources
• Become an expert on a
particular topic
• Access files from
anywhere
• A means of backup of
resources

54. File sharing tools
• Dropbox
– Useful if file is too big
to send my email
– Can add people to
share
– Can create folders
• Slideshare
– Upload PPTs or
documents
– Share URL
– See how many views
or downloads

55. A10: Storyboard
Purpose: To develop a storyboard for your module/course in which
the learning outcomes are aligned with the assessment events, topics
(contents) and e-tivities.

56. Start End
Learning
Outcomes
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4
Assessment
LO1
LO2 LO3 LO4
Week 1
Topic 1
Week 2
Topic 2
Week 3
Topic 3
Week 4
Topic 4

57. A11: Rubrics for evaluation
Purpose: To devise a set of criteria for evaluating the success of the
design in a real learning context
• Brainstorming some criteria to evaluate the
success of the design in a real learning
context
• Try and focus on measurable/observable
things
• Think about what data collection you might
use – classroom observation, surveys,
interviews, use of post its (Things I liked,
room for improvement, etc.)
– Use the LTDI Evaluation Cookbook to get ideas

58. Evaluation and Action Plan

59. • 7C of Learning Design resources
– https://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole/lear
ning-design-workshop-2017
• Larnaca declaration on Learning Design
– larnacadeclaration.wordpress.com
• Cloudworks site for sharing and discussing learning
and teaching ideas
– http://cloudworks.ac.uk/
• My blog
– http://e4innovation.com
Useful sites and resources

60. Email: g.conole@gmail.com
Website: e4innovation.co.uk
Blog: e4innovation.com
Twitter: @gconole
http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole