Roles of Learning Design Tools in Scaffolding Teacher Participation and Learning in Research Practice Partnerships

Abstract

This structured poster session brings together eight presentations of research practice partnership (RPP) projects that have designed and deployed learning design (LD) tools to scaffold teachers’ learning and collaboration as designers. These tools are designed according to the design principles underpinning the respective RPP projects, playing an important role in their implementation. The LD tools presented have diverse features and functionalities, ranging from scaffolding peer review of LDs, visualization of the LD workflow, sharing of LDs for peer adoption, guidance in the design of specific learning activities, design of personalized feedback, fostering collaboration and learning of geographically distributed LD professionals, to the provision of an LD language for shared communication, layered LD decision-making and visualization of design analytics. Such diversities highlight the need for and challenges to establishing LD as a design profession and the potential for LD tools to support the establishment of a learning sciences-grounded designer profession.