Towards teaching as design: exploring the interplay between full-lifecycle learning design tooling and teacher professional development

Recent research suggests that training teachers as learning designers helps promote technologyenhanced educational innovations. However, little attention has been paid so far to the interplay between the effectiveness of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) instructional models promoting the role...

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Autores: Asensio-Pérez, Juan I., Dimitriadis, Yannis, Pozzi, Francesca, Prieto, Luis P., Hernández Leo, Davinia, Persico, Donatella, Villagrá-Sobrino, Sara L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/32820
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32820
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Authoring tools and methods
Distributed learning environments
Improving classroom teaching
Teaching/learning strategies
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Sumario:Recent research suggests that training teachers as learning designers helps promote technologyenhanced educational innovations. However, little attention has been paid so far to the interplay between the effectiveness of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) instructional models promoting the role of teachers as designers and the capabilities (and pitfalls) of the heterogeneous landscape of available Learning Design (LD) tooling employed to support such TPD. This paper describes a mixed method study that explores the use of a novel Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE) for supporting a TPD program on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Collaborative Learning (CL). 36 Adult Education (AE) and Higher Education (HE) in-service teachers, with little experience on both CL and ICT integration, participated in a study encompassing training workshops and follow-up fulllifecycle learning design processes (from initial conceptualization to implementation with a total of 176 students). The findings from our interpretive study showcase the benefits (and required effort) derived from the use of an integrated platform that guides teachers along the main phases of the learning design process, and that automates certain technological setup tasks needed for the classroom enactment. The study also highlights the need for adaptation of the TPD instructional model to the learning curve associated to the LD tooling, and explores its impact on the attitude of teachers towards future adoption of LD practices.