IMS Learning Design at LHU

Mark Barrett-Baxendale, Amanda Oddie, Paul HazlewoodDeanery of Business and Computer SciencesLiverpool Hope University

Projects

JISC LD4P Developing a user friendly interface for the Reload IMS LD

editor. Practitioners authoring IMS LD

JISC D4LD (UK OU) Improving IMS LD runtime for institutional use

JISC DesignShare Sharing, discovery & re-use of IMS LD

D4LD project (run-time)

SLeD/Coppercore

DesignShare project (discovery and sharing)

OpenDocument.net

LD4P project (authoring)

Reload

The Valkenburg architecture (where we fit)

Partners: St Helens College, Phosphorix, University of Bolton

Practitioners producing IMS LD units of learning with support

User interface to Reload for practitioners Sharing IMS LD UoLs in other situations

Learning Design for Practitioners

Producing designs Practitioner workshops-Reload

Evaluating the software Practitioner draws up LD to level A

(sequence/selection, content) Using Reload

Team develops to level B if necessary Add properties and conditions Examples:

QTI File upload Messaging

Prototype user interface

Using practitioner feedback to develop designs for a new interface to Reload

Bolton to build prototype based on designs Iterative design process

Review with practitioners Refine designs Improve prototype

Demonstration

Current Interface New Designs

New interface based on practitioner feedback

Original Interface

Designs produced by practitioners

English Literature Multimedia Psychology St Helens

Creative writing Science

In use with learners

Web

www.hope.ac.uk/ld4p/ http://ld4p.blogspot.com/

Led by UK OU Partners: OUNL, LHU

Preparing SLeD (UK OU) and Coppercore (OUNL) for institutional use Addressing performance issues Usability Improved course and user admin

Designing for Learning Design

SLeD Usability Testing units of learning in classroom situations Gather student feedback on use of SLeD Compile list of usability issues

Coppercore Performance Monitor issues whilst running of units of learning e.g.

Stability Scalability Administration

Designing for Learning Design

Performance and usability issues identified in earlier project (Slide) were fixed by OU/OUNL at start of project.

Currently running modules no stability issues so far.

Future More units of learning e.g.

MSc. Computing Programme in Sept. 07 Second year Computing module Other subjects

State of Play

Web

http://sled.open.ac.uk/web/project/d4ld.jsp

DesignShare

JISC demonstrator project Partners: University of Bolton, RayCom Developing a plug-in for the Reload IMS LD editor

Search OpenDocument.net repository from within the editor Download learning designs into editor

Installing as part of system at LHU Evaluate in use

DesignShare demo

DesignShare plug-in

Web

http://designshare.opendocument.net/ http://mbbdesignshare.blogspot.com/

Where next?

Feeding into other projects D4L, e.g. eLIDA CAMEL TenCompetence, OpenDock

Web 2.0 (Emerge Project)