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Connecting with HE teaching staff about learning design ideas

Date/time: Tuesday 22 Jan 2008. Session: Repeated in "session 4" slot
Place: Aston Business school, Birmingham
Occasion: JISC: Using learning resources: transforming the educational experience documents

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

Slides PDF file
Handout Word file

Summary of practical points

[These are practical points for disseminating learning design ideas to teaching practitioners]

Put it on the web, where Google will find it for them when and only when they need it. Just in time dissemination.
Organise the material for a web audience (not a tome-reading audience) I.e. in a pyramid of levels of detail.
Collect all the different required kinds of information in one place
Have examples in as many disciplines as possible (and expressed in the terminology of those disciplines too)
Have ideas organised and expressed for practical action, not theoretical explanation and taxonimising
Do not assume the reader is ignorant and that you have the knowledge. You don't.

Bio blurb

Steve Draper, currently a lecturer at Glasgow University, has in recent years worked on the use of technology in HE, especially on evaluating the benefits (if any) of its applications, and on theories of education. This presentatation comes from his involvement in the "Re-engineering Assessment Practices" (funded by SFC), and his collaboration with the project director, David Nicol. Steve has also worked extensively on the use of Electronic Voting Systems in HE.

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