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Distance Education

August 2009 Volume 30, Number 2

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Number of articles: 5

  1. Approaches to Learning Design: Past the Head and the Hands to the HEART of the Matter

    Claire Donald, Adam Blake, Isabelle Girault, Ashwini Datt & Elizabeth Ramsay

    Digital technologies have been used increasingly in open, distance, and flexible learning to both facilitate learning and depict learning designs. While the portable nature of a learning design... More

    pp. 179-199

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  2. From Reload to ReCourse: Learning from IMS Learning Design Implementations

    David Griffiths, Phillip Beauvoir, Oleg Liber & Mark Barrett-Baxendale

    The use of the Web to deliver open, distance, and flexible learning has opened up the potential for social interaction and adaptive learning, but the usability, expressivity, and interoperability... More

    pp. 201-222

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  3. Capturing Teachers' Experience of Learning Design through Case Studies

    Elizabeth Masterman, Jill Jameson & Simon Walker

    This article distinguishes three dimensions to learning design: a technological infrastructure, a conceptual framework for practice that focuses on the creation of structured sequences of learning ... More

    pp. 223-238

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  4. Supporting the Reuse of Effective CSCL Learning Designs through Social Structure Representations

    Serena Alvino, Juan I. Asensio-Perez, Yannis Dimitriadis & Davinia Hernandez-Leo

    Distance and blended collaborative learning settings are usually characterized by different "social structures" defined in terms of groups' number, dimension, and composition; these structures are ... More

    pp. 239-258

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  5. Enabling Teachers to Develop Pedagogically Sound and Technically Executable Learning Designs

    Yongwu Miao, Marcel van der Klink, Jo Boon, Peter Sloep & Rob Koper

    A learning design describes a sequence of learning activities that learners undertake in order to help them achieve particular learning objectives, including the resources and services needed to... More

    pp. 259-276

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