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Pattern languages

By Steve Draper, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.

This is a page to hold pointers to web pages related to pattern languages.

My own interest is in whether, or not, these could be relevant to expressing and communicating learning designs (in HE). It was entirely triggered in me by Sally Fincher who has some very useful pages and papers on this.

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/saf/patterns/intro.html

It all originates with:

[2987 patterns] Barber, Thomas Walter The Engineer's sketch-book (1889; 1934; ... 1955) See crucially Sally Fincher's page on Barber
[253 patterns] A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander et al. (1978)
[53 patterns] Derntl's e-learning patterns
[43 patterns] Patterns for teaching Object oriented programming
[23 patterns] Patterns for designing Object oriented programs
[? patterns] Fincher's patterns for teaching HCI (user interface design)
[0? patterns] Patterns for expressing learning designs

Pattern languages

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