Learning Design

This complete textbook addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants. Other areas of study important to robotics, such as kinematics, receive attention within the case studies, based around a 2-degrees-of-freedom planar articulated arm used throughout to test the controllers under examination by experimentation. Auxiliary resources are available in the form of pdf projector presentations and a pdf solutions manual.

Description of the IMS Learning Design Specification and its advantages Roadmap for approaching the specification for different users How-to guides for using the specification to create interoperable e-learning processes Examples of the use of educational modeling and learning design in production processes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Rob Koper is Director of R&D Learning Technologies and member of the Management Team of the Educational Technology Expertise Centre (OTEC) of the Open University of The Netherlands. Results: EML (Educational Modelling Language), IMS Learning Design, models for competency based learning, personalised instruction, web-based learning environments, XML based authoring environments (design, editing, content management), pedagogical meta-models and new generative models for building personalised curricula). Leader of new 5 year programme into Self-Organized Learning Networks.

Colin Tattersall studied Computational Science before working on his PhD at the Computer Based Learning Unit at Leeds University. He subsequently moved to The Netherlands to work for the R&D arm of one of the major Dutch telecommunications operators. There, he investigated new technologies in the area of sales and marketing support systems, publishing several articles and participating in technology dissemination and consultancy exercises. In the mid-nineties, he moved into the software industry, working as Product Manager for a company specializing in (XML-based) support systems for knowledge-intensive processes. In mid 2002 he joined The Open University of The Netherlands as an educational technologist, where his responsibilities cover work related to innovation in e-learning and learning technology standardisation.

Inhalt
The Specification, Architectures and Tools.- An Introduction to Learning Design.- The Learning Design Specification.- Architectures to Support Authoring and Content Management with Learning Design.- An Architecture for the Delivery of E-learning Courses.- An Architecture for Learning Design Engines.- A Reference Implementation of a Learning Design Engine.- Learning Design Tools.- Designing E-Learning Courses.- Basic Design Procedures for E-learning Courses.- An Instructional Engineering Method and Tool for the Design of Units of Learning.- Integrating Assessment into E-learning Courses.- Collaboration in Learning Design Using Peer-to-Peer Technologies.- Designing Adaptive Learning Environments with Learning Design.- Designing Educational Games.- Designing Learning Networks for Lifelong Learners.- How to Integrate Learning Design into Existing Practice.- Experience.- Applying Learning Design to Self-Directed Learning.- Applying Learning Design to Supported Open Learning.- Using Learning Design to Support Design and Runtime Adaptation.- The Edubox Learning Design Player.- Delivery of Learning Design: the Explor@ System's Case.- Challenges in the Wider Adoption of Learning Design: Two Exploratory Case Studies.- A Learning Design Worked Example.