Pedagogy-informed design of learning at scale
12th October 2020 : 17:00 - 18:00
Category: Public Seminar
Research Group: Learning and New Technologies
Speaker: Professor Mike Sharples, The Open University
Location: Online - Microsoft Teams Live
Convener: Niall Winters
Audience: Public
The Open University has a 50-year history of designing and evaluating innovative technologies for learning at scale.
New open learning platforms and MOOCs can offer courses to thousands of learners. How to design effective learning at large scale? Recently, the OU has adopted an approach of pedagogy-informed design.
In this seminar, Mike will describe this approach to agile software design and give two case studies: Learning as Conversation as a foundation for the FutureLearn platform, and Citizen Inquiry to inform design of the nQuire project as a partnership between the OU and the BBC.
About the speaker
Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK and Honorary Visiting Professor at the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University. His research involves human-centred design of new technologies and environments for learning. He inaugurated the mLearn conference series and was Founding President of the International Association for Mobile Learning. He founded the Innovating Pedagogy report series and is author of over 300 papers in the areas of educational technology, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Audience
This seminar will be of interest to educational technologists, online learning designers, software designers, and education policymakers.
