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Tweaks, templates and the LMS: exploring how to improve the learning environment [...]

- Effective learning requires high levels of contextually appropriate TPACK- There remains a TPACK problem in higher education and its use of digital learning- Academics - while experts in content - are largely left alone struggle with the act of creating and using digital (primarily web-based) learning environments due to their typically limited technical, multimedia...

- Effective learning requires high levels of contextually appropriate TPACK - There remains a TPACK problem in higher education and its use of digital learning - Academics - while experts in content - are largely left alone struggle with the act of creating and using digital (primarily web-based) learning environments due to their typically limited technical, multimedia and pedagogical knowledge - This paper draws lessons from the early stages of a DBR research project at Griffith University seeking to develop ways to help improve the level of TPACK available to academics and subsequently improve the quality of the learning environments and the learning that takes place within them
 
### Misc thoughts
Blackboard 9.1 is already sort of based on templates e.g. the course contacts. But the problem is that those template haven't _evolved_. The focus on Bb and others has been on developing the broader systems. Not the individual "templates".
This is where Tweaks come in.
Tweaks also enter the picture because the standard "content item" doesn't provide any scaffolding. It's just HTML. This allows a lot of crap content (e.g. as complained about in the Bb community) but also the flexibility to do their own thing.  The same thread that complains about the crap content is the same one in which the people with knowledge boast and share their positive use of the generativity.
The tweaks are a way to develop a constructive template. To reuse the expertise to produce a certain useful display.
But they also suffer from the problem of not having been kept up to date. Perhaps again because of the focus on bigger picture - the inability to learn about the context and perhaps the gulf between the people who know that context and the developers who can do things.
h5p comes in ....
What is missing ... Goodyear and Retalis.

### Examples of issues

- The template for "Contacts" (Blackboard) has been labelled "Staff Information" in the menu.  The Blackboard title can't be changed, but Griffith have decided to go another way.

Tweaks, templates and the LMS: exploring how to improve the learning environment [...]

- Effective learning requires high levels of contextually appropriate TPACK - There remains a TPACK problem in higher education and its use of digital learning - Academics - while experts in content - are largely left alone struggle with the act of creating and using digital (primarily web-based) learning environments due to their typically limited technical, multimedia and pedagogical knowledge - This paper draws lessons from the early stages of a DBR research project at Griffith University seeking to develop ways to help improve the level of TPACK available to academics and subsequently improve the quality of the learning environments and the learning that takes place within them
 
### Misc thoughts
Blackboard 9.1 is already sort of based on templates e.g. the course contacts. But the problem is that those template haven't evolved. The focus on Bb and others has been on developing the broader systems. Not the individual "templates".
This is where Tweaks come in.
Tweaks also enter the picture because the standard "content item" doesn't provide any scaffolding. It's just HTML. This allows a lot of crap content (e.g. as complained about in the Bb community) but also the flexibility to do their own thing.  The same thread that complains about the crap content is the same one in which the people with knowledge boast and share their positive use of the generativity.
The tweaks are a way to develop a constructive template. To reuse the expertise to produce a certain useful display.
But they also suffer from the problem of not having been kept up to date. Perhaps again because of the focus on bigger picture - the inability to learn about the context and perhaps the gulf between the people who know that context and the developers who can do things.
h5p comes in ....
What is missing ... Goodyear and Retalis.

CardBox:: Paper Ideas [...]

[[Tweaks, templates and lessons for digital learning]]...

Expertise for content development [...]

Jegan & Eswaran (2004) suggest that > Content development requires expertise from different fields. The design and development of content require major inputs from instructors, instructional designers, graphic designers, and programmers. Normally instructors are expected to develop the content for e-learning on their own. The design and development of content is not a...

NGDLE – Next Generation Digital Learning Environment [...]

as > a digital learning architecture encompassing a confederation of learning applications, tools, and resources woven together by means of open standards. In part, because of the inherent variety > What is clear is that postsecondary learning is far too diverse to be enabled adequately by a single application or platform. Therefore, it seems legitimate to conclude t...

CardBox:: Distribution [...]

[[NGDLE - Next Generation Digital Learning Environment]] [[Blackboard tweaks]] [[Long and short arc learning design]] [[Social Pedagogies]] [[Commons-based peer production]]...

CardBox:: Affordances [...]

[[Why the web scales]] [[Blackboard tweaks]]...

Why the web scales [...]

The reads (emphasis added) > For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the **Web to scale**. It cites "initimately tied in with the Unix operating system" and a "whole approach reflected the distinctive Unix philosophy of building new system capabilities by recombining existing tools". Not to menti...

Blackboard tweaks [...]

The Blackboard LMS (9.1) is an enterprise system. A LMS seen as very unmodifiable. However it has been. Two building blocks offer direct support 1. which appears targetted to help an institution/administrators create and implement hacks across the institution. 2. designed "for academics, deigners and programmers" Related - [[CardBox:: Affordances]] - [[CardBox:: D...

Long and short arc learning design [...]

Goodyear (2009) proposes two contrasting images (recognising that there are many) of how a teacher may design a course 1. Long arc - extended process of thinking, discussing and research possibilities, looking at repositories, books and using various exchanges. "There is a **long arc** between finding an idea or resource and embedding it, or its implications, in the n...