Forum LAMS Newsletter: LAMS Newsletter 110, 11th Jun 2013

By: James Dalziel

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Submissions due July 1st for LAMS and Learning Design stream of ICEM Conference

For those who'd like to present as part of the LAMS and Learning Design stream of the ICEM 2013 conference, please note that the submission date for presentation proposals and/or papers is July 1st. For submission details, please see
http://lams2013.lamsfoundation.org/

This stream of ICEM functions as the 8th International LAMS and Learning Design conference, and will be our major conference for 2013 (instead of a conference in Sydney in December as in the past). ICEM 2013 should be a major Learning Design event, with Diana Laurillard, Grainne Conole, John Hedberg and many others presenting at the conference. For details of the ICEM conference in Singapore, October 1-4th, see
http://icem2013.ntu.edu.sg/

By the way, LAMS will be a major sponsor of the ASCILITE conference at Macquarie University in December 2013, so you can visit us there if you like Sydney in the summer!


LAMS and Moodle 2.5

LAMS is integrated with Moodle and the systems are widely used together. The current LAMS integration works with Moodle 2.4 and earlier Moodle versions. For general details on this integration, see
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Moodle2

Ernie has tested the current LAMS integration with the new Moodle 2.5 release, and it works for the major features, but a few minor issues will need tweaking in the near future. Ernie is keen to talk to anyone who is interested in running LAMS with Moodle 2.5 - please see this post for more details
http://lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/technicalcommunity/forums/message-view?message_id=1635516


New LAMS Book from University of Nicosia

I'm delighted to announce that the third volume of edited articles from the LAMS and Learning Design conferences has now been published by University of Nicosia Press - with special thanks to Chris Alexander and his team for making this possible.

The details of the book are listed below. You can purchase this book (as well as the two previous volumes) via
http://www.unic.ac.cy/about-us/university-resources/executive-bookshop
or contact Chris Alexander for more details: alexander.c@unic.ac.cy

Reference

Alexander, C., Dalziel, J., Krajka, J., & Dobozy, E. (Eds.), (2013). Learning Design. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press

Table of Contents

1. Antri Avraamidou and Anastasia Economou of the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, VISUALISED LEARNING DESIGN: THE CHALLENGES OF TRANSFERRING AN INNOVATION IN THE CYPRUS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

2. Emil Badilescu-Buga of Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE), ADOPTING LEARNING DESIGN WITH LAMS: MULTI- DIMENSIONAL, SYNCHRONOUS LARGE-SCALE ADOPTION OF INNOVATION

3. Kay Carroll of the Australian Catholic University, LEARNING DESIGN AND INQUIRY IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY CLASSROOMS

4. Leanne Cameron of Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE). THE THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF A LEARNING DESIGN PROJECT

5. James Dalziel of Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE), ADOPTION OF LEARNING DESIGNS IN TEACHER TRAINING AND MEDICAL EDUCATION: TEMPLATES VERSUS EMBEDDED CONTENT

6. Carina Dennis of the University of Technology (Sydney) LEARNING IN LAMS: LESSON FROM A STUDENT TEACHER EXPLORING GENE ETHICS

7. Eva Dobozy of Curtin University THE DE BONO LAMS SEQUENCE SERIES: TEMPLATE DESIGNS AS KNOWLEDGE-MOBILISING STRATEGY FOR 21ST CENTURY HIGHER EDUCATION

8. Matthew Kearney, Glynis Jones of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Lynn Roberts of the Institute of Education, University of London. AN EMERGING LEARNING DESIGN FOR STUDENT-GENERATED ‘IVIDEOS’

9. Chris Campbell, Simone Smala, and Jung-Sook (Sue) Lim of the School of Education in the University of Queensland. A RESEARCH DESIGN IN TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED SCAFFOLDING IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: WHAT LESSON LAMS CAN OFFER AT THE INTERFACE OF EDUCATIONAL AND LANGUAGE LEARNING RESEARCH

10. Miriam Tanti of the Australian Catholic University, LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE: USING BLOGGING TO TEACH WRITING

11. Candela Contero Urgal, Antonio Brenes Castaño, Gregorio Rodríguez Gómez, Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruiz, and Beatriz Gallego Noche of the University of Cádiz. REVISION BY EXPERTS AS A STRATEGY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND VALIDATION OF LAMS UNITS

Back page description

This edited edition on Learning Design published by University of Nicosia Press has two overarching aims: firstly, it draws attention to the growing international importance of the multifaceted and innovative research area known as Learning Design; secondly, it emphasises the forefront role LAMS has played in helping educators put Learning Design principles into practice in a conceptually-grounded way. There are however two central challenges for educators in this revolutionary IT age: (1) assessing the implications for learning in light of such an astounding rate of technological advancement; (2) finding ways to disseminate new discipline knowledge learned to a wider audience. Thus this volume also attempts to collate research experiences and thoughts in a way that may help to improve our understanding of some of the major issues in learning design research.

Posted by James Dalziel