Reviewing learning designs with HEART

A learning design support strategy

Abstract

Substantial research and development efforts have been invested in producing digital learning designs and learning objects, with seemingly limitless potential for sharing and portability. However, initiatives to disseminate and share learning designs have had limited success. This may be partly due to learning design being viewed as a product to be used in a range of teaching contexts, as is, without due consideration of learning design as a contextualised process driven by teachers’ pedagogical beliefs about the affordances, possibilities and relevance of digital teaching and learning resources. The HEART (HEaring And Realising Teaching-voice) learning design support strategy aims to support teachers’ learning design practice by eliciting and depicting the pedagogical beliefs underpinning a learning design or resource. In this session participants may trial an early prototype of the HEART website, and provide critical feedback on each stage of the support strategy.