innovating from the outside in– altc2016 slides

Innovating from the outside in

creating a creative hub to effect wholesale change to eLearning practice

Sonja Grussendorf, London School of Economics &

Political Science (LSE)

[email protected]

Sonja Grussendorf, Design Matters 2016

Connect Collaborate Create

• CARE


Session Abstract Promises:

• I will use a current project of a very loose remit to bring together film makers, artists and designers into a “creative hub” to inject creativity and innovation into eLearning practice and theory as a spring board to reflect on the concept of the visual in the context of a Russell Group university (LSE) which is traditionally biased towards the textual and against the visual.

• I wish to contribute a reflective, quasi-philosophical exploration of why and how aesthetics matter in our setting up of online courses just as much as instructional design does.

• Communication – the basis of learning – happens in time and in space. The beautiful matters to us, and design aesthetics are not merely ‘nice but not necessary’, but essential in learning as much as in anything else.


Design Matters

• The What and the How

• The Why


Design Project

• tentative beginnings

• reward and recognition: LSE Innovators

• Ignite My Moodle

Houston, Meyer, & Paewai 2006

Academic Staff Workloads and Job Satisfaction: Expectations and values in academe, Journal Of Higher Education Policy And Management 28:1

Bluteau, Patricia & Krumins, MA (2008)

Engaging academics in developing excellence: releasing creativity through reward and recognition, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 32:4

LSE Innovators:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lti/lse-innovator/

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lti/lse-innovator/


Ignite My Moodle

Chang, Kennedy & Petrovic (2008)

Web 2.0 & user-created content: Students negotiating shifts in academic authority Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008

Wheeler, Yeoman & Wheeler (2008)

The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning British Journal of Educational Technology 39:6


Why care?

Thomson, Iain, "Heidegger's Aesthetics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)


Surface reasons

• Usability

• Accessibility

• Kanso(‘Simplicity’)

Nielsen, Jakob (2000) Designing Web Usability,

Norman, Donald (2004). Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. (Kindle ed. 2004)

David, A. & Glore, P. (2010). The Impact of Design and Aesthetics on Usability, Credibility, and Learning in an Online Environment. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 13(4)

Elias, Tanya (2010) Universal instructional design principles for Moodle, The International Review of Research in Open and distributed learning 11:2

Reynolds, Garr (2013) Presentation Zen Design (Kindle ed.)


Pedagogical Reasons

• literacy

Stokes, Suzanne (2002) Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective, Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education vol1: 1 (2002)

Metros, Susan E. (2008) The Educator’s Role in Preparing Visually Literate Learners, Theory Into Practice 47:102-109, 2008

Felton, Peter (2010) Visual Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 40:6

Matrix, S & Hodson J (2014) Teaching with Infographics: Practicing New Digital Competencies and Visual Literacies, journal of pedagogic development, 4:2

Machin, Jane E. (2015) Show, Don't Tell: Using photographic 'snapsignments' to advance and assess creative problem solving, Marketing Education Review 26:1,


Fundamental Reasons


Aesthetics


The Visceral

Norman, D (2004). Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. (Kindle ed. 2004)


Care

Watters, A. (2015) The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology. (Kindle ed.)

hooks, bell (1994) Teaching to Transgress. Education as the practice of freedom, London: Routledge

Heidegger, M (1927) Sein und Zeit. Niemeyer, Tübingen.


Pedagogical sketchbook

Klee, Paul (1925/1953), Pedagogical Sketchbook, Gropius/ Faber & Faber


Being a Learning Technologist

• creative

• collaborative

• connective

• caring