Hello All,
I have just uploaded in the files section of this group a draft document containing the analysis of the data collected through the final questionnaires at the ASLD workshop in London and at the TPDL  workshop at OEB, Berlin.
Comments are welcome!
Best
Donatella
 

The Learning Design Grid will be hosting a workshop at the Designs for Learning conference  in Copenhagen, 26 April 2012.
The main questions/topics to be addressed will be:

Connecting research and practice, enabling educational practitioners to design and develop high-quality activities, resources and tools for learning and teaching.
Consolidating the diverse traditions of design-based research in education and making them accessible to the widest audience possible.
Identifying... Read full post

The UK GOV has published it's 10 design principles for digital services. Although they were concieved in a different realm, I think the all apply to Learning Design, and probably to other design domains:
Design Principles
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.

Start with needs*
Do less
Design with data
Do the hard work to make it simple
Iterate. Then iterate... Read full post

The workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in understanding and contributing to the notion of teachers as designers, particularly related to the creation/adaptation of technology enhanced learning materials.
For more details see: 
https://sites.google.com/site/teachersasteldesigners/Participation in the workshop is open to: (a) contributors who will participate in addition to the workshop, in pre and post workshop activities aimed at publication in a... Read full post

At the STELLAR network Big Meeting today, one of the proposed Grand Challenge Problems reviewed was "Supporting an Open Culture of Design for TEL". We've posted it here for public review:
https://plus.google.com/102352099876644260792/posts/9ZTZfFfAuye

The last decade has seen a growing trend towards a shift in the perceived role of educators: from providers of knowledge to designers of learning experiences. The call for such a repositioning of educators is heard from leaders in the field of... Read full post

http://designforlearning2012.aau.dk/

The Third Designs for Learning Conference will explore learning environments. The conference will be organized around empirical research methods and theoretical development in relation to designs for - and in - learning.
The conference will include networking and discussions with peers, mini-tracks and paper tracks with presentations, international keynotes, as well as poster sessions based on master class participants. Selected abstracts... Read full post

The latest issue of eLearning Papers, edited by Gráinne Conole and Tapio Koskinen, offers an exciting collection of papers on learning design:

Typologies of Learning Design and the introduction of a “LD-Type 2” case example

Author(s): Eva Dobozy

Using patterns to design technology-enhanced learning scenarios

Author(s): Félix Buendía García, José-V. Benlloch-Dualde

Students as learning... Read full post

Thirdy participants from companies and higher education institutions attended the workshop on "The Theory and Practice of Learning Design" at the OEB 2011 conference, last wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 (see http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2362 for all activities, presentations, etc.)
The morning session included an overview of the field by Grainne Conole, together with presentations of five (5) pedagogical patterns, associated scenarios and tools that allow for creation of learning designs... Read full post

Is LD an inherently messy process, or one of the aims of research in this field to help designers tackle it in a more systematic way?

The full day workshop on Theory and Practice of Design for Learning was held on the 30th of November at OEB. The morning session was devoted to a presentation of the Learning Design field by Grainne Conole and to a quick survey of 5 design patterns and 5 tools to support learning design (CADMOS, Compendium LD, Open GLM, the Learning Designer, WebCollage). The afternoonwas a hand on session where prticipants could implement their own patterns or the ones tey had been presented in the above 5... Read full post