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Key findings of the UNFOLD project

Key findings of the UNFOLD project. Design for Learning start-up meeting, Birmingham 23 May 2006. Overview. The issue UNFOLD addressed: adoption support The UNFOLD activities General results Technical results Educational results The wider world Conclusion.

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Key findings of the UNFOLD project

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  1. Key findings of the UNFOLD project • Design for Learning start-up meeting, Birmingham • 23 May 2006

  2. Overview • The issue UNFOLD addressed: adoption support • The UNFOLD activities • General results • Technical results • Educational results • The wider world • Conclusion

  3. UNFOLD and adoption: crossing the chasm

  4. UNFOLD activities • Facilitate development of a community working with the specification, and develop capacity within the education sector • Support the development of tools by providing a place to gather requirements and get feedback • Provide a place to share resources such as documents, and example materials

  5. General results • A sense of momentum has been sustained in the LD community • A much wider range of tools developed, demonstrated, and refined through interaction with the community • Connection made between technology and pedagogy concerns - the discourse has broadened beyond just a technical debate

  6. Technical results • UNFOLD has supported the formation of a development community, which has pushed forward the types of implementation possible • This has also lead to the development of new architectural model, such as the Berlin Model, which augments LD workflows with web services

  7. Educational results • UNFOLD has provided a forum for educational concerns to be surfaced and debated in the context of the LD technology • The development of example units of learning, documents, seminars, workshops and courses has increased the capacity of educationalists to engage with LD at a much higher level

  8. Educational results II • The identification by educationalists of patterns and design principles in creating effective units of learning has enabled tools to be made more intuitive and task-oriented than was previously possible

  9. The wider world • Some aspects described in LD, such as services, have become of much greater interest • While content management and delivery are now in place in institutions, there is a desire to do more • Workflow technologies have gained rapidly in maturity and adoption across a range of sectors • These aspects and much more are addressed in the TENCompetence project

  10. Conclusion • UNFOLD: • bridged the gap between visionaries and pragmatists • helped carry LD practice from theory to ‘live learners’ • galvanised and brought together the first generation of LD implementers

  11. Thank you • Wilbert Kraan, w.g.kraan@ovod.net • More information: • http://www.unfold-project.net/ • http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content • http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/pedagogy/

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