Distance Education
August 2009 Volume 30, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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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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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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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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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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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