Deadline extended - June 22nd! "Design for Learning in Practice" workshop at EC TEL 2015
Yishay Mor
Design for Learning in Practice
Design for Learning in Practice: Competencies, training, certification, processes, users, methods and tools EC-TEL 2015 Workshop – half-day on September 18th (Toledo, Spain)The Design for Learning in Practice workshop will explore the current and prospective practices of educators as learning designers. Starting from methods, processes, tools and resources that support design for learning, the workshop aims to focus on the competencies, training, certification and institutional frameworks to raise awareness about as well as facilitate and enhance the design of practices of educators. Teacher training and teacher communities will also be addressed since they are instrumental in widening the impact of design for learning in education.
Keywords: learning design, skills, competencies, continuous professional development, design thinking, service design, authoring tools, teacher communities, co-design, group concept mapping
The workshop addresses the following EC-TEL topics:
- Pedagogical underpinning: Learning design and design approaches
- Pedagogical underpinning: Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
- Learning communities and contexts: Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial (continuing education)
- Open Learning Arrangements: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
Target audience The workshop brings together educational researchers, technologists and experts in an multidisciplinary forum to collaboratively define the various skills, methods, techniques, processes and frameworks needed for fostering the adoption of learning design and thus to stimulate targeted research. Workshop chairs
- Muriel Garreta-Domingo - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Peter Sloep – OUNL, Netherlands
- Slavi Stoyanov - OUNL, Netherlands
- Davinia Hernández-Leo – Universitat Pompue Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Yishay Mor – P.A.U. Education, Spain
Previous to the workshop: Call for Papers Participants are invited to contribute to the workshop with a paper related to the following aspects of learning design in practice: competencies, training, certification, processes, methods, tools and users. Participants are expected to produce a 2 to 4 pages document in LNCS format reporting on practices related to Learning Design including competencies, training, certification, processes, users, methods and tools. All the submissions will go through a blind review process by, at least, two of the members of the committee. The best papers presented at the workshop as well as the ideas discussed there will be invited to send their contributions to a special issue of the RUSC journal (January 2016). Papers should be submitted via Easychair until 15 June 2015 through the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ectel2015dlp-ws. Important dates:
Paper submission: June 15, 2015. Extended deadline: June 22nd- Notification: July 7, 2015
- Resubmission final manuscript: November 1, 2015
- Publication: January 2017
Contributions from related communities in the area of educational development (such as Didaktic, ICED, etc.) are especially welcome.
This is a half-day Workshop that will held on 18 September 2015 within the 10th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning. Programme Committee (some of them still to be confirmed):
- Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain;
- Yael Kali, University of Haifa, Israel;
- Karel Kreijns, Open Universiteit, Netherlands;
- Allison Littlejohn, The Open University, UK;
- Susan McKenney, Open Universiteit & Universiteit Twente, Nederland;
- Harvey Mellar, University of London, UK;
- Simeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece;
- Krassen Stefanov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria;
- Daniel Spikol, Malmö University, Sweden;
- Thomas Ryberg, University of Aalborg, Denmark;
- Steve Warburton, University of Surrey, UK;
- Sarah Younie, De Montfort University, UK
- Roumiana Peytcheva-Forsyth, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Previous to the workshop (during EC-TEL) Participants will be asked to sort a set of pre-conceived statements, derived from experiences in the HANDSON project, that reflect various aspects of learning design related to the competencies, training, tools, methods and processes for educators to acquire the skills and knowledge to be designers of learning. This will be done a web-based environment (Group Concept Mapping – GCM – exercise (Stoyanov, Hoogveld, & Kirschner, 2010)) using a break during the conference. During the workshop (Friday September 18th, morning) Participants will be asked to present their views in a customary paper session. The workshop will be closed off by presenting the outcomes of the hands-on GCM exercise done during the conference. The presentation serves as the basis for a discussion with the audience and paper presenters on the main topic of the workshop: the design of learning in practice.