University of Sydney, Australia This review paper draws together some ideas emerging from
recent research and development activity in the field of 'design for learning'. It explores the …

The field of learning design studies how to support teachers in devising suitable activities for
their students to learn. The field of learning analytics explores how data about students' …

Across a broad range of design professions, there has been extensive research on design
practices and considerable progress in creating new computer-based systems that support …

A number of researchers have explored the role and nature of design in education,
proposing a diverse array of life cycle models. Design plays subtly different roles in each of …

Introduction Researchers in the learning sciences have been considering methods of
analysing and representing group-level temporal data, particularly discourse analysis, in …

Highlights•Designers reach shared understanding using a range of nonverbal
communicative modes.•Gestures play an important coordinating role in collaborative …

Design activities in which two or more people are participating are always multimodal and
thus require a multimodal analytical framework. This article reports how a multimodal …

Learning by design (LBD) has a long association with learning about complex
environmental systems. This investigation traces the development of ideas within a group of …

Learning analytics techniques are traditionally used on the" big data" collected at the course
or university level. The application of such techniques to the data sets generated in complex …

Makerspaces, and STEM Studios are growing in relevance in educational settings all over
the world. Understanding the complexity of the learning situations in informal makerspaces …