Mod4L Project

Representations of Effective Practice

In the UK a number of initiatives are representing the structure and orchestration of activities in a variety of forms. These include the Higher Education Academy subject centres, CETLs, TESEP, Learning Activity Design in Education (LADIE, part of the JISC eFramework Programme), the JISC Digital Libraries in the Classroom programme (DIDET and DialogPlus) as well as the JISC Effective Practice and Innovative Practice guides. International initiatives include the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) and the Smart Learning Design Framework, as well as IMS. Other more general representations include patterns, learning designs, lesson plans and usecases.

At the same time, developments in pedagogic theory over the last few decades have produced a wide variety of more abstract conceptual frameworks for understanding the characteristics, constituents and operation of effective approaches to learning and teaching. These include educational taxonomies, typologies of effective practice, theoretical models of learning, etc. The Mod4L project will investigate the most teaching practitioner focused of these frameworks and map them against known examples of effective practice. It will build on the experience of the LADIE Project of creating representations for varied user types and analysing the interactions between the constituents of learning activities gathered from practitioners.

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