Steven Warburton

• PhD Neuroscience
• Executive Principal Education Futures at University of New England

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous economic, health and wellbeing issues and significantly disrupted the education sector. In response to the pandemic, universities scrambled to transition from face-to-face teaching to fully online teaching practices. With many institutions being unprepared for such a transition (Jung et al., 2021;...

The term ‘hybrid learning space’ (HLS) is loosely used to describe a fusion of learning opportunities and teaching approaches that span physical and virtual spaces. This paper outlines ongoing work to define the contemporary ‘hybridised space’ and build a pattern language that offers reusable design solutions to the challenges of delivering learnin...

This paper outlines the development of a pattern language for design solutions to the emerging challenges of delivering learning and teaching in a hybridised setting. The term 'hybrid learning spaces' has become commonplace in recent years and has been loosely used to describe a fusion of learning opportunities and teaching approaches that span phy...

The intrusive nature of digital technologies has rapidly blurred the boundaries between professional, personal, work and family spaces. The safety and privacy challenges, often luridly reported in the media, have spilled into our formal and informal learning and teaching spaces. As we progress towards the new normal of hybridised lifestyles, it has...

This paper presents an overview of the development of a pattern language for designing online learning and teaching. The aim of these patterns is to facilitate teachers in designing their online teaching environment using a scaffolded methodology that maintains and confirms their individual design agency. Design patterns capture expert knowledge in...

This paper presents a concise pattern language that has been developed for designing online learning and teaching. The aim of these patterns is to facilitate novice teachers in designing both their online environments and learning experiences in a manner that is scaffolded yet maintains and supports their agency in the design process. The value of...

In recent years there has been a significant growth in the number of online courses known as MOOCs available via online providers such as edX and Coursera. The result has been a marked reduction in the clarity around the different course offerings and this has created a need to reconsider the classification schemes for MOOCs to help inform potentia...

It can be difficult to assess the design of, and learning, within Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It is especially hard when trying to analyse this at the level of the individual learner. This study has developed a tool, inspired by Sankey diagrams, to visualise learners’ behaviour and paths through MOOC content. This tool can be used to inves...

Hybrid education aims at dissolving the dichotomies within education such as physical-digital, academic-nonacademic, online-offline, formal-informal, learning-teaching and individual-collective. It takes a more holistic view and take the diversity of students and teachers into account. In this paper we will focus on mixing the digital and non-digit...

In this paper we report on the use of a purpose built Computer Support Collaborative learning environment designed to support lab-based CAD teaching through the monitoring of student participation and identified predictors of success. This was carried out by analysing data from the interactive learning system and correlating student behaviour with...

Assessment, be it formative, summative or diagnostic, is at the heart of all educational endeavour yet university teachers are not always trained in assessment strategies and their underlying principles. Assessment should be fair and relevant for the targeted learning outcomes and engage the learner in a process of reflection that develops increase...

In 2010 the Mozilla Foundation established the Digital Open Badges concept as a virtual incarnation of physical counterparts such as a paper certificate or a youth organisation merit badge. Digital Open Badges offer embedded, verifiable, metadata containing information such as the issuer and award criteria. Open Badges can be used to reward learnin...

For the last two years we have been running a series of successful MOOC design workshops. These workshops build on previous work in learning design and MOOC design patterns. The aim of these workshops is to aid practitioners in defining and conceptualising educational innovations (predominantly, but not exclusively MOOCs) which are based on an empa...

MOOCs have established themselves as a significant feature in the educational landscape. Some effective practices and sustainable models are now emerging, despite initial criticisms, particularly around progression and completion figures. However, strong pedagogical models and good practices are still lacking. The MOOC Design Patterns project (Warb...

Assessment, be it formative, summative or diagnostic, is at the heart of all educational endeavour yet many university teachers are not trained in assessment strategies and the underlying principles. Assessment should be fair and relevant for the targeted learning outcomes and engage the learner in a process of reflection that develops increased se...

In this paper we explore the relationship between factors that affect learner motivation to study and the potential value of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to stimulate student engagement with their core higher educational studies. The research has used a mixed methods approach to uncover quantitative and qualitative insights from a group of u...

It has been acknowledged that the traditional didactic lecture does not always provide the ideal learning and teaching experience (Bligh, 1998). Over the last ten years, individuals and institutions have been exploring the pedagogical possibilities of providing more active and engaging alternatives. One model in particular has been influential in s...

A design pattern approach, in the form of participatory pattern workshops, has been used to explore the design approaches that experts in the field of online learning have used to develop and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Over the course of 3 intensive workshops a total of 20 design patterns were developed from shared narratives of s...

Important aspects of assessments in education are that they are fair and relevant for the targeted learning outcomes. Patterns as descriptions of tested ways can help university teachers with reaching these goals, as these teachers are often not trained in these specific aspects of education. The patterns on fair assessments presented in this paper...

After spending a year working on the development of a new online Master’s programme in higher education, members of the development team were interviewed to reveal their thoughts about the nature of the programme. The dialogue of each interview was summarised as a concept map. Analysis of the resulting maps included a modified Bernsteinian analysis...

Assessment is one of the most important areas in education yet many university teachers are not trained in assessment strategies and the underlying principles. Assessment should be fair and relevant for the targeted learning outcomes. While these are honorable goals, the principles do not state how to achieve them. This is where patterns come to th...

Pedagogies based on active and collaborative learning approaches have been recognised as both effective and engaging in online course settings. However, implementing such pedagogies poses challenges for instructors in terms of educational design, orchestration and assessment. These challenges are multiplied with increasing scale, and could become c...

Active and collaborative pedagogies have been recognised as effective and engaging in many areas. At the same time, implementing such pedagogies poses challenges for educators in terms of educational design, orchestration and assessment. These challenges are multiplied with scale, and thus could become catastrophic in massive learning situations. T...

A critical role for Learning Design is to improve education but we need to first ask ourselves: what is the role of education? Dewey (1938/2007) argues that it is to provide experiences that promote growth. Not just in the course of the experience itself, but in setting up the conditions for further growth through future experiences. It is within t...

A critical role for Learning Design is to improve education, but we need to first ask ourselves: what is the role of education? Dewey (1938/2007) argues that it is to provide experiences that promote growth. Not just in the course of the experience itself, but in setting up the conditions for further growth through future experiences.

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/abstracts/gros_symposium.htm In order to promote pedagogically informed use of technology, educators need to develop an active, inquisitive, design-oriented mind-set. Design Patterns have been demonstrated as powerful mediators of theory-praxis conversations yet widespread adoption by the practitioner...

In order to promote pedagogically informed use of technology, educators need to develop an active, inquisitive, design-oriented mind-set. Design Patterns have been demonstrated as powerful mediators of theory-praxis conversations yet widespread adoption by the practitioner community remains a challenge (Goodyear et al., 2004). Over several years, t...

This section of the book elaborates a series of design patterns that explore the domain of social media and learner interaction in social spaces, with the aim of maximising the benefits that stem from deploying both these elements in collaborative educational settings.

This pattern addresses the mechanics of synchronous text-based chat sessions for effective communication within online teaching sessions.

The aims of this project were to address emerging needs in training future teachers such that they are equipped with a set of skills and competences to successfully deploy technologies for enhanced learning.

When working in a virtual teaching environment one of the challenges is to understand the way that the available communication channels map out space differently to how we imagine real-world spaces.

It has been a goal for many researchers to make education more enjoyable, attractive and effective through the use of multimedia technology [1]. Achieving this goal requires rich interactive communication between students and tutors and a clear understanding of the educational environment. Despite the availability of wide range of commercial system...

This paper describes a research project exploring the use of eBooks and e-readers for the delivery of learning materials and activities on a distance learning LLB course. The project aimed to discover whether an e-publishing platform, comprising e-reader and e-content, represented an effective delivery method for legal study materials that can enha...

In order to promote pedagogically informed use technology, educators need to develop an active, inquisitive, design-oriented mindset (Laurillard, 2008). Design Patterns have been demonstrated as powerful mediators of theory-praxis conversations (Goodyear et al., 2006) yet widespread adoption by the practitioner community remains a challenge. Over s...

Despite its negative connotations, lurking is a valid activity for individuals entering an unfamiliar online social space, especially when deciding how to present themselves and their identity online. Providing the space and time for individuals to acclimatise to extant social rules and behaviours is an important design consideration. This chapter...

Electronic information about the individual is derived from what we say about ourselves, shaped by commentary from others and extended through electronic exchanges with both human and computer based intelligent agents. Digital Identity and Social Media will examine the impact of social media and distributed social spaces on our contemporary underst...

This document describes the methodology that has emerged from a series of workshops we have facilitated over several years. These workshops brought together practitioners from a wide range of fields and engaged them in intense conversations about issues regarding technology and education. Such conversations are rooted in participants’ personal expe...

Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Through an in-depth examination of SL, this article explores its potential and the barriers that multi-user virtual environments present to educators wanting to use immersive 3-D spaces in their teaching. The context is set by tracin...

The paper explores the relationship between formative assessment and social software. Formative assessment practices though beneficial for student learning become marginalized and constrained in open and distance learning environments in higher education. Feedback is a key factor in formative assessment and learners can benefit from the deployment...

The Planet (Pattern Language Network for Web 2.0 in Learning) project aimed to develop and demonstrate an effective community-based mechanism for capturing and sharing successful practice, based on the pattern approach. A pattern describes an effective solution to a recurrent problem embedded in a specific context and is characterised by being draw...

The rise of social software and the proliferation of social networking tools represents a relatively recent cultural phenomenon. The attitudes and behaviors of virtual communities and social groups goes beyond the distributed technological platforms being deployed and requires new conceptualizations and understandings of communities and their corre...

This chapter describes an exploratory study in the use of the virtual world Second Life as an innovative space for situating collaborative activity in the field of art and design. The authors identify eight key affordances of Second Life for learning and teaching and elaborate the educational approach based on group orientated design briefs, carrie...

The publisher of IRRODL, The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER), is pleased to provide links to a series of online seminars that took place over Spring 2007, using Elluminate. These interactive CIDER Sessions disseminate research emanating from North America's and Canada's vibrant DE research community, and we feel these arch...

0. Summary This research study will investigate of the use of a personal webpublishing system based on student weblogs linked via RSS (Really Simple Syndication 1 ) aggregation that will be deployed to support interaction and dialogue within a fully online postgraduate distance learning course. Specifically the study will examine how weblogs are us...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nottingham, 1997.

This special focus panel will explore the pedagogical reality and potential of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) such as Second Life and questions whether immersive 3D worlds can be successfully deployed in online learning via novel pedagogies and new experiences that cut across both formal and informal learning territories. During the sessio...