Mod4L Project

Mod4L Aims and Objectives

Mod4L aims to develop a range of practice models that can be used by practitioners in real life contexts and have a high impact on improving teaching and learning practice. It will move the JISC towards the use of models as a focus for communication, sharing and reuse of designs.

The objectives of the project are to:

• Develop a range of practice models in the form of generic learning designs, exemplars or patterns abstracted from case studies and/or examples of real practice in post-16 and higher education contexts;
• Map these practice models to one or more conceptual framework(s) e.g. a typology of generic learning activities, educational taxonomies, databases of case studies;
• Derive additional practice models to fill any gaps indicated by the conceptual framework(s) chosen;
• Review ways of representing practice models (eg. Lesson plans, concept maps, LAMS, Smart Learning Designs), and develop representations of practice models that are meaningful and usable by practitioner communities;
• Use the representations to make the practice models available to practitioners in an accessible, coherent and usable form, with appropriate guidance on their use;
• Make these models available to the Pedagogic Planner projects for inclusion in the online planning tool.

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