JIME Special Issue
Advances in Learning Design
This special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education centres around the book Learning Design: A Handbook on Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and Training, from Springer-Verlag. The book was conceived towards the end of 2003, written in 2004 and published in February 2005, the same period in which UNFOLD, a European Commission 6th Framework Support Project, was being established. These two impulses have helped spark a range of new work in various countries and with a variety of different perspectives on both learning design and Learning Design (the distinction between these two terms is explained in the Preface to the book, available as part of this special issue).
The 16 articles in this special issue include contributions from France, Germany, Canada, the UK, Cuba, the Netherlands and Spain and cover topics such as the design of LD tools (editors and players), the role of ontologies and patterns in learning design, introducing LD in institutions and using LD with other specifications. Fifteen of the book's chapters have associated articles; the sixteenth contribution to the special issue has a wider scope, touching on many aspects of the book. It records the results of a discussion involving 'teacher-developers' in the Moodle community and examining what it might mean to use IMS Learning Design together with the open source course management system Moodle.
The nature of the contributions varies from those describing completed work or providing new insights to those describing the first steps in ongoing research. In all cases, the articles are intended to provoke discussion in the e-learning community, and we invite your comments in the forums provided with the articles.
We hope you find the contributions stimulating and helpful, and that they encourage reflection on the use of learning design and Learning Design in your own context.
Colin Tattersall & Rob Koper
Special Issue Editors
Contents
Learning Design: A Handbook on
Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and Training
(Preface, reproduced with permission from Springer)
Rob Koper and Colin Tattersall
Practical and Pedagogical Issues
for Teacher Adoption of IMS Learning Design Standards in Moodle
LMS
Anders Berggren, Daniel Burgos, Josep M. Fontana, Don Hinkelman, Vu
Hung, Anthony Hursh and Ger Tielemans
A first exploration of an
inductive analysis approach for detecting learning design
patterns
Francis Brouns, Rob Koper, Jocelyn Manderveld, Jan van Bruggen,
Peter Sloep, Peter van Rosmalen, Colin Tattersall and Hubert
Vogten
Towards a Benchmark for the
Evaluation of LD Expressiveness and Suitability
Manuel Caeiro-Rodríguez, Martín Llamas-Nistal and
Luis Anido-Rifón
Learning Design Engines as Remote
Control to Learning Support Environments
Andreas Harrer, Nils Malzahn, Kay Hoeksema and Ulrich Hoppe
The Reload Learning Design
Tools
Colin D. Milligan, Phillip Beauvoir and Paul Sharples
Ontologies to integrate learning
design and learning content
Colin Knight, Dragan Gaševic and Griff Richards
A learning design toolkit to
create pedagogically effective learning activities
Gráinne Conole and Karen Fill
A QTI editor integrated into the
netUniversité web portal using IMS LD
Ecaterina Giacomini Pacurar, Philippe Trigano and Sorin
Alupoaie
Learning Units Design based in
Grid Computing
Leonel Iriarte Navarro, Alexander Sánchez Díaz ,
Manuel Marco Such, Daniel Morón Martín and Pedro
Pernías Peco
IMS LD reusable elements for
adaptive learning designs
Adriana J. Berlanga and Francisco J. García
Managing IMS Learning
Design
Wolfgang Greller
Transposing MISA Learning
Scenarios into IMS Units of Learning
Ileana de la Teja, Karin Lundgren-Cayrol and Gilbert Paquette
Developing an approach for
Learning Design Players
Patrick McAndrew, Rob Nadolski and Alex Little
An IMS LD Graphic Editor using the
graphs representation for modifying the course structures
Ecaterina Giacomini Pacurar, Philippe Trigano and Cristian
Zamfirescu
Making the Institutional Business
Case for Introducing Learning Design Tools
Gayle Calverley
LearningMapR: A Prototype Tool for
Creating IMS-LD Compliant Units of Learning
Dawn Buzza, Les Richards, David Bean, Kevin Harrigan and Tom
Carey