Dawn Leeder University of Cambridge Dr Richard Windle University of Nottingham

1. Sharing the LOAD - learning objectives, activities & designs JISC Circular 01/06: Design for Learning Programme Implementation Strand Start-up meeting Aston University, 23-24 May 2006 Dawn LeederUniversity of Cambridge Dr Richard WindleUniversity of Nottingham Dr Raquel MoralesUniversity of Cambridge

2. capture holistic learning designs containing learning activities that support defined learning objectives create exemplars by incorporating components from large pre-existing collection of mature reusable learning objects evaluate for pedagogical effectiveness across a range of subjects by RLO-CETL community provide recommendations for future research & development disseminate outcomes widely by multiple methods initial review of designs implicit in these collections to select designs that show the most promise for reuse Key aims of “Sharing the LOAD” project

3. 1 May 2006 – 31 Oct 2007 - Duration: 18 months Management group and regular meetings established Lead: Cambridge Review of existing mature reusable content Lead: Nottingham Recruitment of participants Lead: Cambridge Re/design of workshop poster templates Lead: Cambridge Practitioner questionnaire Lead: Nottingham Practitioner-based workshops Lead: Cambridge Development of exemplars Lead: Cambridge Use and evaluation Lead: Cambridge Practitioner longer-term impact interview Lead: Nottingham Final report and dissemination Lead: Cambridge “Sharing the LOAD” project stages

4. Meet every 3 months but more frequently at first Key personnel plus representative from the support project JISC programme manager other stakeholders… Alternate meetings between Cambridge and Nottingham Video-conference where possible “Sharing the LOAD” management group

5. Review of existing mature reusable content May - Jun 2006 catalogue of existing RLOs reviewed broad learning design categories identified classification of RLOs - learning design taxonomy RLOs at nodal points selected report and analysis Jul - Oct 2006 Informs redesign of poster templates for workshops “Sharing the LOAD” initial review

6. Practitioner-based workshops to capture learning designs Nov - Dec 2006 Cambridge Nottingham London - Goldsmith’s Centre for Excellence in Learning Technology (Mira Vogel)1 Oxford - Learning Technologies Group (Liz Masterman)2 “Sharing the LOAD” workshops 1 Designs for learning in virtual environments: insider perspectives2 Evaluation of generic tools used in ‘designing for learning’ JISC e-learning Programme - e-Learning and Pedagogy Strand

7. Reusable learning designs selected from the workshops Jan - Mar 2007 each learning design piloted in 3 subjects1 to create exemplars based on the same design to support different subjects each exemplar described as a case study2 “Sharing the LOAD” exemplars 1 Nursing, Medicine, Allied Health Professions2 ACETS exemplar and semi-structured learning design statement

8. Apr - Jun 2007 Use by: 3500 nursing students 1500 biomedical science students 180 graduate entry medics Evaluation with RLO-CETL Evaluation Toolkit: field notes student questionnaire tutor's form technology audit “Sharing the LOAD” use and evaluation

9. Practitioner questionnaire Sep - Oct 2006 Baseline survey to establish initial level of knowledge Analysis and report Practitioner long-term impact interview Jun - Jul 2007 12 interviews to determine any increase in knowledge Analysis and report “Sharing the LOAD” interviews

10. Final report and dissemination Aug - Oct 2007 report of project outputs recommendations for further work national conference submission (i.e. ALT-C) international workshops “Sharing the LOAD” final report