JISC

The project will involve installing a IMS Learning Design system (CopperCore/SLeD) and integrating this with the Liverpool Hope’s existing systems. Learning designs will be drawn up as IMS Learning Designs to be used in the delivery of at least one Computing module. The project will provide valuable experience of carrying out this process in an organisation other than that in which the toolkits were developed. The project will also evaluate the usability of the toolkits and the utility of IMS LD. Most of the team are practising academics and the evaluation of the toolkits and of the learning design system will take place both within an IT Services function and within an academic department. The evaluation will therefore truly reflect the use of the toolkits in a real institutional context.

Aims and Objectives

The overall aim of the project is to install, integrate and then evaluate the CopperCore/SLeD Learning Design system, in a real (or as near to real as possible) HE context.

The specific objectives are to:

• install CopperCore and SLeD on a live server
• replace the SLeD login with the University’s authentication system
• connect CopperCore   either directly or indirectly (via a manual work-around)  to the University’s student record system (SITS) to automate or semi-automate student registration on learning design runs
• draw up learning designs for use in the delivery of an existing HE module (in the first instance)
• evaluate the SLeD system and IMS Learning Design in the delivery of this module

Project Methodology

The project will focus on installation and evaluation of a learning design system in a real institutional context, i.e. within normal college IT infrastructure with college wide access to learners. IMS Learning Designs will be drawn up and used in live learning and teaching situations.

Implications/ Deliverables/ Stakeholders

The project should provide a demonstration to the wider community of the utility of Learning Design, and provide a set of learning designs that have been tested in a live teaching and learning situation. Experience of using the system should lead to a greater understanding of how LD can be used to support learning and teaching in a real context.