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The Teacher Education Program at Macquarie University is trialling the use of Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) software as a scaffold for lesson design with pre-service teachers. Throughout the process of authoring a sequence, these...

Shaping and developing our teachers as thinkers and designers for the classrooms of the future presents today's educators with many challenges. One of these challenges is the selection and modeling of thoughtful and adaptive approaches to learning...

Shaping and developing our teachers as thinkers and designers for the classrooms of the future presents today's educators with many challenges. One of these challenges is the selection and modeling of thoughtful and adaptive approaches to learning...

The value of a lesson plan as an organisational tool is highly regarded by many teacher educators but from a pre-service teacher's point of view, it often produces little more than "documentation", hence their reluctance to undertake them. The...

This paper describes a course designed to provide ICT skills to our future classroom teachers as it has been transformed from a purely technical, skills-based design to a format offering students a solid grounding in effective pedagogical approaches ...

Reusing learning designs created by successful teachers is a means of sharing innovation and best practice whilst at the same time conserving resources. It would seem beneficial therefore to encourage and promote this practice. Repositories exist...

School administrators, computer co-ordinators and even classroom teachers are being asked to determine whether their school should invest in a Learning Management System (LMS). Many know little about the area, their technical skills vary widely and...

If an effective learning design could be transferred across into another discipline, then good teaching and learning practice could be shared between them. Effective learning designs promote student engagement, productive learning and optimise...

Learning design for the higher education environment is a complex task, especially in light of the increasing diversity of the student body. Learning design is a professional activity for which many of our university’s academic staff is not trained. ...

Based on a study of the use of the EDUWEBTV streaming video system in Malaysian schools this paper suggests some strategies for developing more student-centred pedagogies. The review of the system recommended more activity-based learning and the...

Reusing learning designs created by successful teachers is a means of sharing innovation and exemplary lessons whilst at the same time conserving resources. It would seem beneficial, therefore, to encourage and promote this practice. This paper...

Making student learning a high priority at a time of increasing student diversity places much more responsibility on academics. Sharing, re-using and disseminating best practice is one way to handle these pressures and maintain current standards....

Reusing learning designs created by successful teachers is a means of sharing innovation and exemplary lessons whilst at the same time conserving resources. It would seem beneficial, therefore, to encourage and promote this practice. This paper...

Making student learning a high priority at a time of increasing student diversity places much more responsibility on academics. Sharing, re-using and disseminating best practice is one way to handle these pressures and maintain current standards....

Pre-service education students are exposed to a variety of technology while studying at university. This generally occurs as part of the course they study, while on practicum and informally, both at home and socially. This paper focuses on the...

In this project, technology was used to breathe new life into the exemplary learning designs developed as part of the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL). The major aim of the PEEL Project was to improve the quality of learning and...

Novice teachers are often looking for good learning designs on which to model their own teaching and learning environments. Additionally, they need the opportunity to discuss and reflect on their original designs and the designs of others to gain...