ALT/CETIS Conference:LAMS - Learning Activity

Management System

James DalzielAdjunct Professor & Director,

Macquarie University E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE)

james@melcoe.mq.edu.au

www.melcoe.mq.edu.au

Executive Director, WebMCQ Pty Ltd

james@webmcq.com

Can Learning Design finally change this?

Background to Learning Design

• Various descriptions of the Learning Design approach– “Play/Act” model

• A Learning Design (or Learning Activity Sequence) ismade up of individual “Learning Activities”

• There are three parts to a Learning Activity– (1) Who is involved?– (2) What content is needed?– (3) How is the activity conducted? (tool)

• Short Example: What is Constructivism?– Week 1: Discussion environment - initial thoughts– Week 2: Review of content and search for websites– Week 3: Small group debates with scribe reporting back to

whole class– Week 4: Submit report for marking and comments

• Demonstrations:– Student view– Monitoring view– Authoring view

Simple example of Learning Design

Authoring different pedagogical sequences

• Consider a sequence as follows:

(1) Consider a question

(2) Review content

(3) Debate ideas

(4) Conduct assessment

Authoring different pedagogical sequences

• Consider a sequence as follows:– (1) Consider a question; (2) Review content; (3) Debate

ideas; (4) Conduct assessment

• How could this be conducted differently?– Fully online over a month (distance e-learning)

• (1) Discussion Forum (Class); (2) Share Resources; (3) Chatand Scribe (Small groups); (4) Submit report

– Fully online over an hour (in a computer lab)• (1) Live Q&A; (2) Present Resources; (3) Chat session (Class);

(4) MCQ quiz (show group average and high scores)

– Partially online and partially face to face over a week (tutorialand online tasks)

• (1 & 2) Discussion forum and Present Resources; (3) Face toface tutorial debate; (4) Group project submission

Fully online over a month: (1) Discussion Forum (Class); (2) Share Resources; (3) Chat and Scribe (Small groups); (4) Submit report

Fully online over an hour: (1) Live Q&A; (2) Present Resources; (3) Chat session (Class); (4) MCQ quiz (show group ave and high scores)

Partial Online and F2F: (1 & 2) Discussion forum and Present Resources; (3) Face to face tutorial debate; (4) Group project submission

Conclusion

• LAMS is a Learning Design “inspired” system– LAMS development issues contributed to Valkenburg

meeting to assist future development of IMS Learning Design

• LAMS V1.0 beta is now final and ready for use– Currently at beta 3 release– Seeking development partners for rest of 2003– Full V1.0 product due towards end of 2003/early 2004– For details about becoming a development partner and

licensing the LAMS V1.0 beta contact:james@webmcq.comPh: +61 2 9209 4079