First Keynote: What does a practitioner want from learning design?
Posted by LAMS Administrator on 13th December 2006
Time zones are completely unforgiving and to make this keynote possible Professor Diana Laurillard of the London Knowledge Lab at the University of London, sat in her study late at night, in cold wintry London, while everyone at the LAMS conference was adjusting to the approaching summer and had just started the first day of the conference.
To give as much time as possible for interaction and questions Diana opted for a synchronous start in an Elluminate virtual classroom and then switched to an audio narrated presentation and then back live to answer questions. This blended approach worked well.
What a great start to LAMS2006 and Diana, as usual, left everyone thinking and this keynote was quoted numerous times during the conference
Diana spoke about:
- What does the practitioner or educator/teacher want from learning design
- What is the LD information flow – what do you have to think about
- Analysis of a project at the London Knowledge Lab including module and session planning
- Looking at pedagogical support
- Finally talking about capturing and migrating good pedagogy and the pedagogical planner project
What is an Enhanced Podcast?
This podcast episode is different from the rest, which are just audio mp3s, in that Diana’s presentation is what is called an enhanced podcast. i.e. it has images which are powerpoint slides which are synched to the audio by what is called tags or bookmarks.
It is best viewed in Apple Computers’ Quicktime or iTunes. This is free software available from this Windows download site or the Mac download site
We encourage you to subscribe to the LAMS Podcast which will include this episode. Do it by pressing the text link “Entries (RSS)” under Subscribe in the left hand column of this blog. That will open a new window and you can choose an application to receive the podcasts. If you have iTunes installed and you choose this, from then on new podcast episodes once posted to this site will appear in iTunes when it is opened or refreshed.
When this enhanced podcast format is transferred to a photo or video iPod you will be able to see the slides, as well as listen to the audio. On a computer you can also enlarge them so they can be projected for others to see.
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