The document describes a workshop on designing collaborative learning activities. It outlines the goals of designing workshop activities that will achieve educational aims in a given situation. It provides an overview of the activities which include envisioning a vision, connecting tools and resources, prototyping, and evaluating the design. The workshop utilizes tools like the Integrated Learning Design Environment and heuristic evaluation to develop and critique proposed learning designs.

1. METIS Meta workshop
Designing workshops on the topic of collaborative
learning
http://www.metis-project.org/

2. Introduction
• Today’s activities
• Tools to support you
• Your knowledge
• Our knowledge as facilitators
“Learning design is the act of devising new practices,
plans of activity, resources and tools aimed at achieving
particular educational aims in a given situation”
(METIS project, 2012)
Goal: to design an activity (or sequence of
activities) that will form part of a concrete workshop

3. Using the ILDE
• Register, if you have not already done so
• register here: http://ilde.upf.edu/
• When you upload resources, please tag them:
– 'agora-mw' or 'kek-mw'
• Then, put the ILDE link(s) on the “bucket” for the activity
–Click on the artifact link in Moodle
– Web Content  artifact name , ILDE URL

4. Overview of today’s activities
Envision
ConnectPrototype
Introduction
Investigate
Evaluate / revision

5. METIS Tools
• Conceptualize
• Author
• Implement
Integrated Learning Design Environment http://ilde.upf.edu

6. Paper prototyping tools
Activity
Learning
outcome
Tool
Resource
Learner’s
work

7. A2: How to ruin a learning
design workshop (20 minutes)
1.List the 10 best ways to ensure that the
learning design workshop you are designing
will fail!
2.Share these with the others via the ILDE. Use
the ILDE Conceptualize/New Rich Text editor
to create a document, then either create your
list by editing it directly, or cut and paste e.g.
from Word.
3.What are the key themes?
ILDE rich text editorPersonas, barriers, concerns

8. A3: Barriers and challenges
(40 minutes)
a. What are the barriers and challenges from a
learner’s perspective of a learning design
workshop on collaborative learning?
b. What are the barriers and challenges in
implementing a learning design workshop on
collaborative learning?
ILDE rich text editor
Technical challenges? Motivational challenges?
Temporal challenges? Other challenges and barriers?

9. A3: Barriers and challenges
(40 minutes)
1. As individuals, write down 3-4 barriers from a learner’s
perspective and 3-4 barriers/challenges to implementation,
each one on a separate post-it.
Green post it notes for learners’ perspective,
Yellow post-it notes for implementation (5 minutes).
2. Share these with the others in your team by placing your
post-its on an A1 paper and collaborate to arrange them in
some order or map (15 minutes)
3. Present map to the workshop. Your team will have about 5
minutes to make its presentation.
Make your map available to other teams by displaying it and
by taking a photo of it and uploading it to the ILDE.
ILDE rich text editor

10. A4: Evidence and examples of
learning design workshops on
collaborative learning
(30 minutes)
• A few activities that have been used successfully in learning
design workshops on collaborative learning will be described.
• Listen to the descriptions, and, working in your team, please
select one or two that you think could be used in your
context.
• Note any features that make it a good example to use in your
context, and any potential issues. Please do this in a rich text
document in the ILDE.
ILDE rich text editor

11. A5: Initiate, Ideate, Investigate:
produce your Vision (1.5 hours)

12. A5: Initiate, Ideate, Investigate:
produce your Vision (1.5 hours)
• Describe your vision for an activity to occur in a learning design
workshop on collaborative learning. Focus on describing the
effects the workshop activity being designed is intended to have
on the learners.
• Use a Learning Outcomes View and a Course Map to help
structure your discussions and describe your vision e.g.
• use the Learning Outcomes View to describe the activity you
will implement
• use a Course Map to describe the workshop it will fit into
(i.e. you can use the Course Map to describe a particular
version of the METIS workshop structure in D3.2 for KEK or
Agora).
Course map Learning outcomes view METIS D3.2

13. A6: Connect: gather tools and
resources (45 minutes)
1. Think: which patterns do you think could be applied in your case?
(5 minutes)
2. Pair: (20 minutes)
Which parts of the activity should be synchronous, and which
should be asynchronous?
Which tools have the right affordances for your activity?
3. Share: (20 minutes)
Agree as a team which pattern(s) you will use, which stages will be
synchronous and which asynchronous, and where particular tools
and resources will be used.
Patterns Post-its for visualising learning designs

14. A7: Prototype (1.5 hour)
A prototype is a way of demonstrating how a design will work.
Not the final product, but enough to clarify the functionality and
technical issues for meeting the user requirements.
Use WebCollage to construct a prototype of the conceptual
design you produced in activity A6.
ILDE guidance WebCollage
(by Daniel Y. Go) (by Zach Hoeken)
GLUE!-PS

15. A8: Evaluate (45 minutes)
Heuristic evaluation originates in usability research, as a
technique for early formative evaluation of digital systems. A
group of experts is asked to assess a particular design using a
given rubric (set of heuristics)
• a low-fidelity rapid evaluation which often uncovers design
flaws at an early stage.
• a group of experts “walk through” the evaluated system as if
they were users (learners) engaged in a typical activity.
• The experts use a set of design heuristics - “rules of thumb”
against which they are asked to assess their experience.

16. A8: Evaluate (45 minutes)
1. As a team, select a view or representation of your design
that summarises its features. (5 minutes)
2. Make your chosen representation available to another
team (5 minutes)
3. As a team carry out a heuristic evaluation of the design
you have been given using the template provided, and the
corresponding evaluation checklist. Bear in mind the personas,
factors and concerns of the learners relevant to this design (15
minutes)
4. Each team will present its evaluation to the workshop
(about 5 minutes per team). (20 minutes)
Heuristic evaluation guidance
Heuristic evaluation template
Other team’s design Other team’s checklist

17. A9: Wrap up & complete workshop
evaluation (30 minutes)