OnlineHE_Toolkit

107 The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Project Number: 2020-1-RO01-KA226-HE-095434 Best Practice 11: Learning Designer, a tool for didactic design and analysis of e-learning 1. Topic/ Area Open to all HE subjects/disciplines Learning design/pedagogy of online teaching 2. Title Learning Designer, a tool for didactic design and analysis of e- learning 3. Type of Best Practice Online Tool for visually structure approach to online learning design and construct a techno-pedagogical framework 4. Date released 2017-2021, Version 2.45 5. Partners/ network FutureLearn platform UCL (University College London) 6. Level International/EU 7. Description of the methods/ approach and/or theories used The Learning Designer helps lecturers design teaching and learning activities using the six learning types from the Conversational Framework. It also provides some feedback on your design by showing you the proportion of each of the different learning types in your eventual design in the form of a pie chart, so you can see where you might need to make adjustments. As you design each step of the session you can specify the type of learning activity, duration, group size, teacher presence/or not, online/or not, synchronous/or not, and any resources to be