An exciting area of research and development at the moment is in the area of ‘learning designs’. Sites such as the Learning Design website have documented exemplary technology-mediated learning designs and more recently, organic communities such as the LAMS community have evolved into valuable places for both documenting, sharing (and quite easily enabling) learning designs. There has been some concern about the ‘practitioner-friendliness’ of some of these spaces (e.g. see Manuel’s recent posting) … two UK projects, the Phoebe project and the Cloudworks project , are exploring exciting solutions

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  1.   ‘Practioner Friendliness’ of new technologies | Rebecca Says:

    [...] have just read Matthew’s post ‘Learning Designs‘. In this post Matthew discusses the current concern of ‘practitioner [...]

  2.   Reactionary: Learning Designs | Michelle's Blog Says:

    [...] reading “Learning conventions” comments on “Learning Designs” . I visited the web site to see what all the fuss is [...]

  3.   Predict… Observe… Explain… | Ronie's page... Says:

    [...] collaboration and scientific thinking in students. Using learning designs as discussed by Kearney, POE’s could be used more frequently in class as the observation of the experiment could be [...]

  4.   LAM vs Moodle | Lost in Thought Says:

    [...] captured the imagination of others in our group. I was intersted to hear about Paul’s and Matthew’s thoughts on the [...]

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    [...] Uncategorized.After having a brief skim through Matthew Kearney’s Blogs, I stumbled upon one (Learning Designs) which was highlighting the use of different technologies to create online learning experiences. [...]

  6.   | Hannah Mills- e-learning Says:

    [...] just read Mat Kearney’s post on “Learning Designs”. I agree with Matt’s positive attitude towards these learning design websites and think they [...]

  7.   Learning Conversations: Learning Designs - Reactionary | Blog 1 Says:

    [...] absolutely agree with Matthew Kearney’s blog posting on Learning Designs.  The research into learning designs is very exciting!  I have just completed my own learning [...]

  8.   A reaction to Matthew’s post; Learning Designs | Louise's E-learning Site Says:

    [...] semester I have been involved in creating my own learning design, using the LAMS Community. Matthew comments that ‘there has been some concern about the ‘practitioner-friendliness’ of some of these [...]

  9.   LAMS vs SMARTboards | G'Day :o) Andri's blogging page! Says:

    [...] or ‘teacher’ friendly. Matthew presents some similar views in his blog posting called learning designs. I found that the layout and the sidebar tool were too limiting and it didn’t allow [...]

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