Design of Learning Activities – Pedagogy, Technology and Delivery Trends

Journal Title: EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 4

Abstract

There are many questions that must be addressed in the design of teaching-learning situations/scenarios. They include: how to adapt content/activities to learner´s specific needs; how to plan corrective feedback; how to fit teaching-learning-assessment techniques to a specific educational context; how to choose the educational tools more appropriate to a teaching-learning-assessment method; how to choose a language to express a pedagogical model; how to adequate the teaching-learning-assessment activities deployment to a specific educational format (distance, face-to-face or blending learning). Currently, educators, teachers included, are faced with those questions and therefore the development of teaching-learning systems is vital to help them in the design of learning situations in order to alleviate their burden in preparing lessons or teaching-learning activities. This paper presents an overview of a set of mechanisms that can help educators taking informed decisions when designing teaching-learning scenarios. To this end, a survey of the most relevant computer-based teaching-learning systems since 1960 along with developments in the learning and the instruction domains are presented. In addition, reflections on educational material design, teaching-learning activities more specifically, are also introduced. Those considerations aim at bridging the gap between relevant theoretical aspects and the teachers’ daily activities in the design of teaching-learning scenarios. Finally, this paper introduces our proposed model for automatic recommendation of teaching-learning techniques to support teachers in designing of teaching-learning activities.

Authors and Affiliations

Dulce Mota, Luís Paulo Reis, Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

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  • EP ID EP45919
  • DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/el.1.4.e5
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Dulce Mota, Luís Paulo Reis, Carlos Vaz de Carvalho (2014). Design of Learning Activities – Pedagogy, Technology and Delivery Trends. EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning, 1(4), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-45919