Rich visualizations and costing in SOLE 3.5

As promised this version of the SOLE Toolkit, 3.5, remain a free, unprotected and macro-free Excel workbook with rich functionality to serve the learning designer. Version 3.5 has two significant enhancements.

Rich visualization of the learning spaces and tools: that students are to engage with in their learning. This provides an alternative, fine-grain, view of the students modes of engagement in their learning.

Faculty-time calculations in design and facilitating: based on the learning spaces and tools to be used

Why ‘learning analytics’ is like a sewer

Back in the late northern hemisphere summer of 2013 I drafted a background paper on the differences between Educational Data Mining, Academic Analytics and Learning Analytics. Entitled ‘Adaptive Learning and Learning Analytics: a new design paradigm‘, It was intended to ‘get everyone on the same page‘ as many people at my University, from very different …

Visualisation of Educational Taxonomies

Sharing a paper today on the visualisation of educational taxonomies. I have finally got around to putting into a paper some of the blog postings, discussion, tweets and ruminations of recent years on educational taxonomies. I am always struck in talking to US educators (and faculty training teachers in particular) of the very direct use …

Visualising Outcomes: domains, taxonomies and verbs

NOTE: updated high-quality visualisations of these taxonomies are available here. I think being able to visualise things is important. Faculty and learning designers need to be able to see Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) take shape, and many find existing lists uninspiring. It’s not uncommon for faculty and instructional designers to grow weary of ILOs; they …

Modes of Engagement: Version 2.3 of Toolkit released

Can one know too much about the learning we design? Why is it we appear to know so little? It’s hard to share what you can’t articulate. This is an attempt to make the learning expectations, aspirations and intentions we have of learners as transparent as possible. The desire to produce a useable, intuitive (or at least helpful) toolkit to implement …

DiAL-e and SOLE at Distance Education Conference Madison-Wisconsin 2011

The  27th Annual Distance Learning and Teaching Conference at Madison-Wisconsin this August was a diverse and varied programme attended by some 900 distance educators from all sectors, from K-12 to professional education. My contribution was a half-day  DiAL-e Workshop with Kevin Burden (University of Hull) attended by some 24 people. The workshop went relatively well but …

SOLE Model Poster at ALDinHE 2011

This year the ALDinHE conference had as its theme – “Engaging Students – Engaging Learning” and was a series of small, diverse but very practical sessions ranging from identifying successful work-based learning models to the effective induction of non-traditional learners. In amongst all of that I ran a small workshop on Wednesday 20th April using …

SOLE Model Illustrated

VERSION OF THIS POST FIRST APPEARED spatkinson.wordpress.com from May 13, 2010 The following brief video presentation was prepared for a Course Team workshop at Massey University NZ in May 2010 to introduce the SOLE Model. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0FThaVwGYg&version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1] The SOLE model is intended to be developmental, diagnostic, evaluative and descriptive. It is borne out of a desire …

LAMS Learning Design Conference Presentation

New YouTube videos from the European LAMS Learning Design Conference 2010

Video Overview of SOLE Toolkit v1.1

Release of the SOLE Toolkit

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