This document discusses different approaches to learning design. It outlines several learning design approaches, including using activities to stimulate student interest, sequencing materials to tell a story, encouraging collaboration, developing conceptual understanding through activities like hypothesis testing, using resources to solve real-world problems, authoring projects, role-playing empathy activities, independent research, exploring composition and aesthetics, and using clips as analogies. The overall focus is on concentrating on learning opportunities and encouraging a variety of approaches rather than a purely subject focus.

1. Overview of the
‘Learning Design’ Approaches
Singapore
2nd
December 2007
Simon Atkinson
s.p.atkinson@hull.ac.uk

2. Avoiding a purely subject focus
Encouraging a variety of
approaches
Neither
Student focused nor Teacher
Focused
Concentrating on
Learning OpportunitiesLearning Opportunities
Our Approach

3. The approach we want
users to have
What’s the archive got on …….?
What do I want my students to DO?

4. Learning Design Matrix

5. After UK & Croatian Workshops…’Analogy’
… a work in progress

6. Learning Designs – ‘Worksheet’

7. Poste
r
Evolving
Language
New
Design

8. Learning Designs – Stimulus
Activities to stimulate interest and
student engagement
1.Starter-Plenary
2.Topping & Tailing
3.Dissonance & Shock
4.Observational ‘Watch Closely’
Here’s an example…

10. Learning Designs –
Storytelling (Narrative)
Sequencing materials to convey
a narrative or story

11. Learning Designs – Collaborative
Interacting and collaborating with
peers to facilitate the construction of
knowledge and understanding

12. Learning Designs –
Conceptual/procedural
(Developing ideas)
Optimizing opportunities for
students to develop ‘deeper’
understanding of concepts and
procedures
•Hypothesis Testing (POE)
•Synthesis
•Mindmaps & Diagrams
•Analysis
•Extrapolation

13. Learning Designs – Problem-Solving
Enquiry based learning
(inc. PBL)
Using resources to solve ‘real world’
(authentic) problems or issues
presented to them

14. Learning Designs –
Authoring - Project based
Authoring artefacts – ‘learning by
doing’. Student authored video edits.

15. Learning Designs –
Empathy (role-play /
decision-making)
‘Walking in the shoes of others’:
decision making and role-play
activities using video archives

16. Learning Designs –
Independent
study/research
Encouraging the learner to search and
research materials using the search
facilities/engine and the archive as a
source of data

17. Learning Designs –
Composition / aesthetics
Exploring the archives from the
perspective of composition and
aesthetics
(mis en scene and montage)
Media literacy

18. Learning Designs –
Analogy
Using the clip(s) as a figurative device:
As allegory, metaphor or analogy
Here’s an example…

20. Learning Designs
Practical Activity