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Jaime MetcherCentre for Innovation in Professional Learning

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About me

Software developer

15 yrs in Professional Learning

Developed and ran large-scale in-house eLearning systems

Hangs out with smart educators

Centre for Innovation in Professional

Learning

Support for CPD Course Proposals and Business Cases

Support for UQ Faculty, Institute and Sector Strategy Development

Mentoring and engagement with UQ CPD Initiatives

Best practice CPD Standards and Guidelines

Development of Institution-wide CPD approaches

This talk

Large scale professional learning is hard

Implementation patterns to make life easier

How does Blackboard Learn stack up?

Large scale professional learning is hard

Because…

Professional learning is hard

Professional learning is hard

Speed social engineering

Software for speed social engineering

Low friction

Focussed

Personalised

Groupy

Large scale is hard

(ns)MOOCs

Crocodile Dundee cartoon

To boldly learn…

Deep space speed social engineering

The Design Step

Implementation patterns

Full documentation available online…

http://www.uq.edu.au/cipl

http://professionallearningmatters.org/ (coming soon)

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Provide a friendly face on every page to lead the learners through the learning process

• Personalised• state sensitive• contact info and help

Implementation patterns

Break down the learning object into heterogeneous steps, at the granularity of minutes

Implementation patterns

Provide tools for multiple learning modalities

Implementation patterns

Provide the whole learning activity in one seamless flow

Implementation patterns

Give the learner a visible and permanent indication of what they've done

Implementation patterns

Don't artificially expire learner data

Avoid "modal" or locked-in learning pathways

Encourage real identities, but allow opt-out

Even short learning objects should be catalogue-able

Identify on-screen elements with codes, names and icons

Implementation patterns

Support composing learning objects into larger learning objects

CPD Platform lightning tour

Does it work in Blackboard?

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Implementation patterns trial

Blackboard Learn 9.1

Moodle 2.4

edX (open source version)

An angel on my shoulder

No angel on my shoulder

Small steps

Give us the tools - polls

Give us the tools - discussions

Give us the tools - reflection

One stop shop

Breadcrumbs are forever

Keep everything

The rest

A la carte

ID please

Mix and match

Don’t fence me in

Optional anonymity

Does it matter?

What to do?

No magic hat, no rabbit

Standard extensions

Custom extensions

LTI

Other LMS’s

Conclusion

This market is not well served

Be prepared to do lots of extra work and

customisation

Hopefully our patterns might serve to inspire a new

generation of courseware products

Prove me wrong!!

j.metcher@uq.edu.au

http://www.uq.edu.au/cipl

http://professionallearningmatters.org/ (coming soon)