Organisational change and sustainable networked learning: Design is not enough.
Seminar with John Hannon, visting scholar in eLearning Lab this spring. This was a very stimulating lunch session - John talked about his work at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he and colleagues work with finding sustainable ways to change educational practices.
John Hannon talked about a change from thinking about design towards thinking about assembly - connecting policy and practice is a fast way of expressing it. Rather than making grand schemes and plans, focusing on how to enact what you want to happen here and now seems to be a way of doing bottom up-changes.
Read more about John’s work here: http://www.ell.aau.dk/2012/05/03/dr-john-hannon/
Find more info about the seminar here, and find slides from John Hannon’s talk here.
The Theory and Practice of Design for Learning - Workshop held in eLearning Lab on April 24th 2012
An interesting day spent with great people from the field of Learning Design, Grainne Conole from Leicester University, UK; Yishay Mor, Open University, UK; and Thomas Ryberg from eLearning Lab, Aalborg University.
Talks, hands on, workshop, design activities - all about learning design, tools to support it, ways of facilitating it, etc. Together with colleagues PO Zander and Md. Saifuddin Khalid, we managed to do a little work on our ePolicyInPractice case :-)
Links to Grainne’s talk “The 7 C’s of Learning Design” can be found here: http://e4innovation.com/?p=576
and description and resources from the workshop can be found here (Cloudworks - check it out): http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2402
Research group on ICT for Development - Call for papers out now
To serve as a forum for our ongoing research on the topic, we have formed a research group on ICT for Development. Formally, the group is a subgroup within eLearning Lab; however, we also have a number of ‘alumni members’, namely former colleagues in eLL whom we still collaborate with. We have a presentation website here.
Currently, our main activity in the group is writing a book on the topic of ICT for Development within education and learning. A call for chapters has been put together, as we would like to invite others to contribute - please get in touch, if you have relevant research to present.
