Share Paper: Transforming Teacher Education through Student Authoring of Learning Designs

1. James Dalziel, Macquarie University / LAMS Foundation, Australia

Abstract: Learning Design is a new approach to educational technology that focuses on the development, sharing and running of sequences of learning activities also called 'digital lesson plans'. Learning Design goes beyond traditional content-centric e-learning approaches to combine both content and collaborative learning tasks into scaffolded sequences of student tasks. While some Learning Design systems require considerable technical skill for authoring, the open source Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) provides a simple drag and drop visual authoring interface for creating Learning Designs which makes it appropriate for use in teacher education courses. This presentation provides an overview of the field of ...