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Publications
Personalising Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources: DiAL-e Framework Case Studies
Author(s): Kevin Burden (The University of Hull, UK); Simon Atkinson (Massey University, New Zealand)
Pages: 91-108 pp.
Source Title: Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): John O’Donoghue (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Copyright: 2010
This chapter describes how individual academics have sought to realise a degree of personalisation in their teaching practice through their engagement with the DiAL-e Framework (Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement). The DiAL-e Framework is a new conceptual model, articulated as a paper-based and web-based tool, for designing learning engagements. The policy and theoretical context, the evolution of the framework, and the methodology for utilising the framework with academic staff seeking to personalise the learning experience are outlined. Details of three case studies arising from this early work are described, and conclusions are drawn on how such frameworks might assist staff in thinking about personalised learning scenarios.
De-coupling groups in space and time’: evaluating new forms of social dialogue for learning.
Author(s): Kevin Burden (The University of Hull, UK); Simon Atkinson (Massey University, New Zealand)
Pages: 141-158 pp.
Source Title: Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Leonard Shedletsky (University of Southern Maine, USA); Joan E. Aitken (Park University, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Introduction is a quote:
Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years of experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was decoupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from mailing lists to chat rooms to weblogs. (Shirky, 2003)
Shirky, C. (2003, March 9). Social Software and the Politics of Groups. Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet. Retrieved August 27, 2009, from https://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html.
Presentations
Introduction to DiAL-e Templates (April 2009)
The following VoiceThread Presentation is an introduction to DiAL-e Templates produced for a variety of projects using the DiAL-e framework: https://voicethread.com/share/450451/
Presentation was given at EDUCAUSE 20090, Denver on the use of video resources to engage and stimulate high-level thinking (Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson)
Presentation made to the JISC Summer Digital conference, June 2009 (Burden & Atkinson), and to the Estonian e-Universities Conference held in Tartu, Estonia in April 2009 (Atkinson)
Overview of the DiAL-e in its final iteration, May 2008
Overview of the DiAL-e Framework presented at ASCILITE 2007 held in Singapore