Using Knowledge Management Tools to Enhance Course Design and Teaching

Using Knowledge Management Tools to Enhance Course Design and Teaching

Bucky Dodd, Ph.D.University of Central Oklahoma

Barriers to Innovation in Course Design and Teaching

Benefits of Working Visually• LEML

Sharing Knowledge

List the ways you share knowledge about course design and/or teaching with others?

Does it work?

Learner is the audience

Difficult to make comparisons

Often lengthy

Language is often subject-matter focused, not instructionally focused

Create

Capture

Code

Share

KM for Course

Design & Teaching

Tacit Knowledge(invisible)

Explicit Knowledge(visible)

Why model learning environments?

7 +- 2

Enhanced Understanding

Enhanced Decision-Making

Enhanced Communication

Source: https://flowingdata.com/2015/06/17/super-mario-bros-was-designed-on-graph-paper/

Source: http://kottke.org/15/06/super-mario-bros-was-designed-on-graph-paper

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=282&v=PhBJq9pc4qo

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=3H2Xg5qxz-8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

innovation needs connections

Research Knowledge

Design Knowledge

Applied Knowledge

DrawingsSketches

Data VisualizationsPrototypesDiagrams

PhotographsVideos

_______________UnderstandingComparingAnnotatingChangingRememberingSharingAdapted Hokanson, 2008

Information PracticeDialogue Feedback Evidence

Building Block Type

“How”

“What”

Examples – Learning Environment Models

Examples – Learning Environment Models

1. Select a lesson

2. Design/Model the lesson using LEML using cards

3. Share

1. How could you use LEML when designing courses?

2. How could you share models created using LEML?

Tools for Modeling Learning Environments

• Paper and Pencil

• Whiteboards

• Post-it Notes

• Flowchart Software (lucidchart.com, PowerPoint, Google Draw, Google Slides)

Source: http://cadmosld.com/

Source: http://lamsfoundation.org/

Tips for Successful Knowledge Management

• Work visually and out loud

• Organize knowledge for the flatness of verbs, not the hierarchy of nouns – Edward Tufte

• Manage complexity

Barriers to Innovation in Course Design and Teaching

Benefits of Working Visually• LEML

Sharing Knowledge

Using Knowledge Management Tools to Enhance Course Design and Teaching

Bucky Dodd, Ph.D.University of Central Oklahoma

bdodd1@uco.edu