ABSTRACT A'learning design'is defined as the description of the teaching-learning process
that takes place in a unit of learning (eg, a course, a lesson or any other designed learning …

Names: Beetham, Helen, 1967-editor.| Sharpe, Rhona, 1969-editor. Title: Rethinking
pedagogy for a digital age: principles and practices of design/edited by Helen Beetham and …

There is a growing demand for advice about effective, time efficient ways of using ICT to
support student learning in higher education. This paper uses one such area of activity …

Virtual learning environments are widely spread in higher education, yet they are often
under utilised by the institutions that employ them. This book addresses the need to move …

This paper introduces Collage, a high-level IMS-LD compliant authoring tool that is
specialized for CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). Nowadays CSCL is a …

Educational design for networked learning is becoming more complex but also more
inclusive, with teachers and learners playing more active roles in the design of tasks and of …

Recently, much e-learning research has been devoted to producing e-content, describing it
with metadata, and to constructing e-learning systems. Considerably less attention has been …

Technological developments have affected teachers' instructional techniques: technology
has allowed the concept of education to be viewed from different perspectives. The aim of …

In this paper, we examine emerging ways to describe and structure learning material,
learning tasks and learning situations. In particular, we consider three different approaches …

This chapter provides an orientation to the key themes of the book, as well as an overview of
the individual contributions. We introduce and develop a number of ideas that underpin the …