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Mapping courses with ABC LD#

Is it possible to map an existing course and its activities using ABC LD?

i.e. could an existing course be abstracted to a collection of and sequence of certain activities. Activities abstracted enough to allow analysis and translation?

Possible process/#

  1. Work through course and its activities Remembering that activities can draw on multiple activity types
  2. Categorise activities against learning types and create a new example(s)
  3. Use categories on StoryBoard to keep track.

Examples#

Excel#

Provides an Excel spreadsheet with the following sheets - 0 Learning type activities - define the types and examples - used in drop downs - i Definitions - defines the learning types - Licence and version - as on the label - i Instructions - - 8 Actions - a to do list - 1 & 7 Tweet and ILOs - about the course and learning outcomes - 2 & 6 Shape - overview of the course and activities - 8 Blend - showing how much online and f-t-f - not sure it's useful - 4-op1 Storyboard - list of activity titles and types - uses drop downs from 0 Learning type activities - 4-op2 Learning Designer Export

Web-based application#

USyd has a web application that appears to scaffold it. More details (march 2021). An evolution of ABC moving online.

This work, the ABC Learning Design Online tool, by the Educational Innovation team within the DVC (Education) Portfolio at the University of Sydney, is a derivative of the ABC Learning Design method by Clive Young and Natasa Perovic, UCL (2015) and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Original resources available at https://abc-ld.org/.

It also borrows concepts and approaches from Goodyear, P., Carvalho, L. & Yeoman, P. (2021). Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD): Core purposes, distinctive qualities and current developments. Education Tech Research Dev.

Features

  • Uses a "card-based" interface to populate activities - echoing LAMS in someway
  • Has an inbuilt analysis feature (types of learning activities)
  • data is available as a JSON object that could be re-used.
  • Written with a Cold Fusion backend. jQuery on the front end.

Mural/online whiteboard#

Completed example of a highly visual collaborative and online artefact arising from a ABC LD process. More useful perhaps from a design perspective than the USyd application, but misses out on the computational support (e.g. analysis of learning activity types)