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Planet: bringing learning design knowledge to the forefront

Yishay Mor, London Knowledge Lab

Steven Warburton, King's College London

Janet Finlay, Leeds Metropolitan

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Problem:

Bad Design

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the limit on growth is not the capacity to produce, but the knowledge to do it right.

Problem: The Design Divide the gap between those who have the expertise to develop high-quality tools and resources and those who don’t (Mor & Winters, 2008*)

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Solution...

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Problem: acceleration

The world is changing. Fast. Faster. Teachers are learners. Students are researchers. We are all designers of our own

and our peer's learning experiences. Son, this was my

dad's mobile. I want you to have it.

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Participatory Methodology for Practical Design Patterns

• Problem– Acceleration → need for effective protocols for

sharing of design knowledge

• Context– interdisciplinary communities of practitioners

engaged in collaborative reflection on a common theme of their practice.

– blended setting: co-located meetings + on-line collaborative authoring system.

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Solution: a series of three* collaborative reflection workshops

• Case Stories Workshop– Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners

by a structured process of sharing stories.

• Pattern Mining Workshop – Eliciting patterns by reflecting on and comparing case

stories.

• Future Scenarios Workshop– Validating and enhancing patterns by applying them to

novel problems.

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Collaborative reflection workshop

ProblemFacilitate on-going design-

level conversation between designers and practitioners involved in diverse aspects of the problem domain.

Open, trusting and convivial.

And at the same time

Critical, focused and output-directed.

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Solution

• Before the workshop– Establish communication channels– Collect contributions

• On the day– Intensive guided group work: process

contributions, produce, share.

• After the workshop– Refine products through on-line channels

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Workshop I:

Sharing case stories

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Problem: telling a good story is not so easy

• Inexperienced story-tellers might -– Take the context for granted– Preach, apologise, market, or generalise– Avoid inconvenient details

• Interactive feedback should help, but peers might -– Be reluctant to criticize– Attribute misunderstanding to their own faults– Loose attention

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Three hats

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Thank you

The pattern language network project:

http://patternlanguagenetworg.org

Yishay Mor

http://people.lkl.ac.uk/yishay

yishaym@gmail.com

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