Designing A Learning Environment

Posted by admin on March 23, 2013

 

Portfolio Notes:

This assignment asked for the employment of a critical eye in the design of curriculum or a learning environment.  Following consideration of the concept "There is curriculum in everything", I chose to design a fully functioning learning management system which would enhance the student's learning experience and teach through the interface's intuitive feature set.  For me, the basis of this assignment always came down to asking a simple question - what is the purpose of designing 'this' element in this way?  What is the message 'this' element is communicating to the student?

  

  

You can develop a concept design for a curriculum/learning environment 

I don't expect you to be able to provide a detailed curriculum design in the time we have available, especially in terms of a developed detailed plan for every experience or activity in the curriculum/learning environment. You can provide an overview or concept sketch of the flow of your proposed program: in general terms, what sorts of experiences will the participants engage with and how will they be sequenced, how much time will they take, and what sort of support system will they require(people, equipment, particular settings, etc.). Think of this as an architect's concept drawing rather than as a detailed construction blueprint. 

 

Develop a concept design for a learning environment:

For this assignment, my focus will be to design an online curriculum delivery environment.  I would like to devise a really good Moodle implementation while remaining cognizant of the short comings of this current tool.  Based in learning theory and steeped in the current realities of internet technology, the designed learning environment will account for the needs of student tracking, individual learning modules, peer interactions, learning journals, Face-2-Face (through class site), embedded video integration, etc.

I will be taking into consideration many of the positives from other LMS's in addition to current shortcomings within this learning environment.  One of my goals will be to submit a suggestion list and background work to the Moodle community for development and integration of the "missing" components.

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