Learning Design in Practice

Question 1

What are the characteristics of contemporary learning environments?

Answer 1

1. highly integrative
2. facilitate active learning
3. sustainable yet diverse
4. develop organically, they evolve
5. shifting, indeterminate, complex

Question 2

What are the elements for designing learning environments for professional education?

Answer 2

1. desired learning attributes (centerpiece)
2. experiential learning approaches
3. educational institution’s position on excellent teaching, student centered approaches, delivery of teaching program, learner cohorts, stakeholders, valued interaction

Question 3

integrative strategy drawing on attributes of student-centred approaches, emphasizing the dynamic interactions between experience, theory and enhanced practice, and as a central vehicle for developing many of the desired student attributes

Answer 3

Experiential learning

Question 4

Includes the many ways in which students are inducted into the total field of professional practice through integrative learning events

Answer 4

Curriculum

Question 5

To become professional practitioners, novices need integrated, authentic experiences of ______ a practitioner of the profession, not just information about ______.

Answer 5

how to be, what to do

Question 6

Novices need these __________ to develop expertise

Answer 6

reflective practice experiences

Question 7

Entails the ability to perform familiar aspects of a task highly automatically, so that processing resources become available that may be used to interpret new, unfamiliar aspects of the problem situation in terms of generalized knowledge about the task

Answer 7

reflective expertise

Question 8

To become experts, learners will seek_______to practice modes of complex professional behavior.

Answer 8

“safe” ways

Question 9

3 logical phases in designing the virtual practicum

Answer 9

1. Physical orientation - providing context
2. virtual experience/reflective practice - incorporates context sensitive feedback, self reflection, self assessment, productive works
3. Physical debriefing - review activities

Question 10

The nature of innovative projects provides a design and development milieu conducive to transformative work by the education designer whose role embraces ________

Answer 10

academic professional development (APD).

Question 11

2 goals of educational design research

Answer 11

1. practice-driven: to design an intervention as a useful solution to a complex educational problem
2. theory-oriented: to produce knowledge about whether and why a certain type of intervention works effectively in a given context and, based on this knowledge, produce design principles that may assist designers in other projects to develop effective and workable interventions

Question 12

design research is also known as _________

Answer 12

design-based research, development research, design experiments

Question 13

Educational Design Research approach that has the capacity to address complex and relevant _________ for which there are no clear guidelines or solutions available.

Answer 13

educational problems

Question 14

three representations of a curriculum

Answer 14

1. Intended - ideal, what it set out to do
2. Implemented - operational, how it is used in practice
3. Attained - experiential, what the outcomes are

Question 15

Characteristics of Balanced eLearning Design

Answer 15

1. Balanced site design - inclusive, accessible, user friendly
2. Balanced facilitation - timely and constructive feedback, active communications but allows room for students to think for themselves
3. Balanced task design - authentic, relevant, can feel ownership

Question 16

Activities that are intended to engage professionals in new learning about their professional practice

Answer 16

professional development

Question 17

What are the characteristics of professional learning?

Answer 17

1. intrinsic phenomenon
2. a continuous process
3. cannot be mandated, coerced or controlled,
4. but can be supported, facilitated and shaped

Question 18

key principles of adult learning

Answer 18

1. Learner involvement,
2. building upon experience,
3. situated content, and
4. problem-centered context

Question 19

effective professional development is believed to be _________

Answer 19

1. social,
2. active and
3. practice-driven

Question 20

Provides learning design guidelines for translating the pedagogical ideas of situated learning into practice in online education.

Answer 20

The authentic e-learning framework

Question 21

Uses technology as cognitive tools that learners use for constructing knowledge, solving problems, collaborating, and articulating their knowledge to others.

Answer 21

learning with technology

Question 22

“need(ing) to be all-embracing, to provide the purpose and motivation for learning, and to provide a sustained and complex learning environment that can be explored at length”

Answer 22

Authentic context

Question 23

Tasks having strong real-life relevance, are as ill-defined and complex as real-world problems, are long-term efforts, and result in a polished product.

Answer 23

Authentic tasks

Question 24

The opportunity to observe how experts solve problems as well as learn with and from their colleagues.

Answer 24

expert performances

Question 25

Expert performances originate from__________.

Answer 25

apprenticeship learning

Question 26

Tasks where participants discuss their growing understanding, negotiate meaning, and publicly present and defend arguments.

Answer 26

Articulation

Question 27

Seeks to determine how the actors respond to different conditions and the consequences of their actions

Answer 27

Grounded theory

Question 28

Elements That Promote Learning Interaction

Answer 28

1. Tasks - realism, practical nature, collaboration, intellectual challenge
2. Colleagues - global nature, shared interest
3. Learning resources - authentic, clear and systematic presentation, availability
4. Scheduling - tight, facilitates concentration, flow
5. Mentors - timely feedback, clarity of instructions, good course management

Question 29

Elements that impede interactions

Answer 29

1. tasks - time constraints
2. colleagues - unresponsive, working across time zones
3. learning resources - bandwidth requirements, length of documentation, not downloadable
4. Scheduling - juggling between commitments, difficulty meeting deadlines

Question 30

9 elements of the authentic e-learning framework

Answer 30

1. Authentic context
2. Authentic tasks
3. Access to expert performances, modeling of processes
4. Promoting multiple roles and perspectives
5. Collaborative construction of knowledge
6. Reflection
7. Articulation
8. Coaching at critical times, scaffolding of support
9. Authentic assessment

Question 31

Networking and interchanges among schools and situations and is strengthened in formalised experiences such as courses and workshops that introduce peer coaching or support collaboration and joint projects

Answer 31

Co-learning

Question 32

Affordances of the main MOOC platforms

Answer 32

1. presentation formats, such as video lectures and reading resources,
2. automated testing,
3. discussion forums, and
4. peer-reviewed assignments

Question 33

‘MOOC pedagogy is not embedded in MOOC platforms, but is __________ ’

Answer 33

negotiated and emergent

Question 34

MOOC platforms do not easily support __________.

Answer 34

collaborative learning

Question 35

Collaborative learning goes beyond discussion learning by bringing ____________ to combine with the social learning of _________, and thereby adds to discussion learning the requirement to produce a__________.

Answer 35

‘constructionism’, ‘social constructivism’, joint construction