This document discusses using knowledge management tools to enhance course design and teaching. It introduces LEML as a tool for visually modeling learning environments and sharing those models. Barriers to innovation in course design are addressed, and the benefits of working visually are outlined. Tips are provided for successful knowledge management, including working visually and out loud, organizing knowledge around verbs rather than nouns, and managing complexity.

1. Using Knowledge Management Tools to Enhance
Course Design and Teaching
Bucky Dodd, Ph.D.
University of Central Oklahoma

2. Barriers to Innovation in Course Design and
Teaching
Benefits of Working Visually
• LEML
Sharing Knowledge

3. List the ways you share
knowledge about course
design and/or teaching with
others?
Does it work?

4. Learner is the
audience
Difficult to make
comparisons
Often lengthy
Language is often
subject-matter
focused, not
instructionally focused

5. Create
Capture
Code
Share
KM for
Course
Design &
Teaching

6. Tacit Knowledge
(invisible)
Explicit Knowledge
(visible)

7. Why model learning
environments?

8. 7 +- 2

9. Enhanced
Understanding
Enhanced
Decision-Making
Enhanced
Communication

10. Source: https://flowingdata.com/2015/06/17/super-mario-bros-was-designed-on-graph-paper/

11. Source: http://kottke.org/15/06/super-mario-bros-was-designed-on-graph-paper

12. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=282&v=PhBJq9pc4qo

13. Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=3H2Xg5qxz-
8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
innovation
needs
connections

14. Research
Knowledge
Design Knowledge
Applied
Knowledge

15. Drawings
Sketches
Data Visualizations
Prototypes
Diagrams
Photographs
Videos

18. _______________
Understanding
Comparing
Annotating
Changing
Remembering
Sharing
Adapted Hokanson, 2008

19. Information PracticeDialogue Feedback Evidence
Building Block Type
“How”
“What”

20. Examples – Learning Environment Models

21. Examples – Learning Environment Models

23. 1. Select a lesson
2. Design/Model the lesson
using LEML using cards
3. Share

26. 1. How could you use LEML
when designing courses?
2. How could you share
models created using
LEML?

27. Tools for Modeling Learning
Environments
• Paper and Pencil
• Whiteboards
• Post-it Notes
• Flowchart Software (lucidchart.com,
PowerPoint, Google Draw, Google Slides)

33. Source: http://cadmosld.com/

34. Source: http://lamsfoundation.org/

35. Tips for Successful Knowledge
Management
• Work visually and out loud
• Organize knowledge for the flatness
of verbs, not the hierarchy of nouns –
Edward Tufte
• Manage complexity

36. Barriers to Innovation in Course Design and
Teaching
Benefits of Working Visually
• LEML
Sharing Knowledge

37. Using Knowledge Management Tools to Enhance
Course Design and Teaching
Bucky Dodd, Ph.D.
University of Central Oklahoma
bdodd1@uco.edu