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CompendiumLD – a tool for visualising learning designs


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10 June 2008
27 January 2009 by Andrew Brasher, originally uploaded on 10-Jun-2008
CompendiumLD is a tool for helping teachers/designers create and visually represent their learning designs. It provides a set of icons to represent the components of learning activities; these icons may be dragged and dropped, then connected to form a map of nodes representing a learning activity.

CompendiumLD provides support to users engaged in the process of designing learning activities. It prompts users to specify role descriptions such as tutor or student; it prompts users to identify tools that will be used (e.g. blogs, e-portfolios). It can provide context-sensitive help which will suggest tools that are appropriate for specific learning tasks (e.g. discussion, reflection), and it is linked to a prototype search tool which retrieves resources from web sites related to learning design.  Furthermore it provides activity templates i.e. abstract activities which can be edited to suit particular applications, and a series of guides to the process of learning design.

You can download CompendiumLD from http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk/.

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