Ldshake@lams2010
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LdShake is a tool that allows teachers to collaboratively create, share, and edit learning design solutions. It combines a repository, social networking, and authoring capabilities. Teachers can work together in teams to design problem-based learning activities. The tool is being used by a group of biology and medicine teachers at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona who need to collaborate on course designs integrating multiple disciplines. An evaluation of the tool found it intuitive to use for collaborative design. Future work will focus on usability improvements and integrating existing learning design templates.
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Ldshake@lams2010
- 1. Sharing and co-editing learning design solutions Davinia Hernández-Leo, Miguel A. Carralero, Jonathan Chacón, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar Carrió, Josep Blat GTI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Contact: [email protected] Oxford, 13 July 2010 European LAMS & Learning Design Conference Please cite as: Hernández-Leo, D., Carralero, M.A., Chacón, J., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Carrió, M., Blat, J., Sharing and co-editing learning design solutions , European LAMS & Learning Design Conference, Oxford, UK, 15-16 July 2010, pp. 20-23 (Abstract available at http://lams2010.lamsfoundation.org/abstract.htm#a9)
- 2. Challenge Sharing educational design ideas Cooperation between teachers in the creation of new solutions Being tackled by several projects from different perspectives…
- 3. Existing approaches Large scale digital repositories Glow, Agrega Sharing of learning designs (activity flows beyond content) AUTC, LAMS, OpenDocument.net Social networking support for the sharing (and discussion) of design ideas Cloudworks
- 4. Challenge Sharing educational design ideas Cooperation between teachers in the creation of new solutions Repositories Social networks Editors Authoring Sharing Only partial solutions for the collaborative creation of designs
- 5. LdShake Repository + social network + authoring L earning d esign s olutions Sha ring and c( k )o- e dition
- 8. … … … LdShakers can create and share LDS’s with other LdShakers using different access rights (so that they can read, comment or co-edit the designs) Each LdS has associated a group of LdShakers able of working on its definition, and a group of LdShakers that can see the design LdS’s can be also directly shared with all the members of the LdShake community, or published so that they can be accessed through a URL …
- 10. Application case LdShake is being used in the context of the Biology and Medicine studies at UPF, Barcelona Courses where students are expected to integrate the knowledge and skills developed in previous subjects Teams of teachers from different disciplines (Bio-chemistry, Anatomy, Genetics, Pharmacology, …) need to work together in the design of problem-based learning solutions
- 12. Currently working on… Evaluating the experience with the small group of teachers in Biomedicine/Biology Workshop with a heterogeneous group of teachers, positive results regarding the intuitiveness of the tool Developing a wizard where IMS Learning Design templates can be uploaded or/and particularized in the creation of LDs
- 13. Some characteristics when compared with related work Sharing design ideas vs. co-creation of design solutions Author decides who will be able to “follow” her/him (not the followers) Teamwork within institutions vs. fully open collaboration …
- 14. Future work Continue evaluation work and integration of templates Address some usability issues CCC licences Combine LdShake with existing approaches to support teachers in the design process / pedagogical planning. See previous work on Collage editor (Hernández-Leo et al., 2006) and advanced work integrating assessment in WebCollage (Villasclaras et al., 2009)
- 15. Many thanks!!! Contact: [email protected] This work has been partially funded by a Generalitat de Catalunya project for Enhancing Teaching Quality (2008MQD 00069) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Learn3 project (TIN2008-05163/TSI).
Editor's Notes
- #3: Sharing educational design ideas and cooperation between teachers and learning designers in the creation of new solutions (Hernández-Leo et al., 2007) is a challenge currently being tackled by several projects from different perspectives.
- #4: . Glow (2010) and Agrega (Sarasa, 2009) are two important large-scale digital repositories devoted to sharing educational resources. Besides, there are approaches focused on supporting the sharing of learning designs, which go beyond educational content and include the definition of activities flows. The AUTC project (2003) established a portal gathering the learning designs resulting from the project. LAMS (2010) has also made available a central repository that facilitates the sharing of LAMS sequences. Elferink et al. (2007) developed a distributed repository specifically dedicated to activities compliant with the IMS Learning Design specification. Moreover, there are tools that exploit the potential of the Web2.0 to support social networking in the sharing of learning designs (Conole et al., 2008).
- #5: While all these approaches provide relevant products that support sharing of resources, they do not present facilities for the collaborative creation of learning designs.
- #6: In this abstract we introduce LdShake, a web 2.0 tool for the social sharing and co-edition of learning design solutions. Designers (LdShakers) can create and share learning designs with other LdShakers using different access rights so that they can read, comment or co-edit the designs. Therefore, each design solution has associated a group of LdShakers able of working in its definition, and a group of LdShakers that can only see the design. The designs can be also directly shared with all the members of the LdShake community, or published so that they can be publicly accessed through a URL.
- #7: Designers (LdShakers) can create and share learning designs with other LdShakers using different access rights so that they can read, comment or co-edit the designs. Therefore, each design solution has associated a group of LdShakers able of working in its definition, and a group of LdShakers that can only see the design. The designs can be also directly shared with all the members of the LdShake community, or published so that they can be publicly accessed through a URL.
- #8: Designers (LdShakers) can create and share learning designs with other LdShakers using different access rights so that they can read, comment or co-edit the designs. Therefore, each design solution has associated a group of LdShakers able of working on its definition, and a group of LdShakers that can only see the design. The designs can be also directly shared with all the members of the LdShake community, or published so that they can be publicly accessed through a URL.
- #9: Designers (LdShakers) can create and share learning designs with other LdShakers using different access rights so that they can read, comment or co-edit the designs. Therefore, each design solution has associated a group of LdShakers able of working on its definition, and a group of LdShakers that can only see the design. The designs can be also directly shared with all the members of the LdShake community, or published so that they can be publicly accessed through a URL.
- #11: LdShake has been used in the context of the Biology and Medicine studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (see Figure 1) where teams of teachers are required to work together in the design of problem-based learning solutions. The resulting designs are used in a course where students are expected to integrate the knowledge and skills developed in previous courses (Carrió et al., 2010).