Conference Themes
The main theme for the 6th International LAMS & Learning Design Conference will be "Learning Design for a Changing World". The conference provides delegates with the opportunity to discuss open resources, technology and teaching practices in education and how they might relate to Learning Design in a changing world.
- What tools, pedagogies, teaching and learning strategies do we need for the future?
- Where does LAMS and Learning Design fit within the new models?
- What can experience with LAMS tell us about teaching and learning?
- How is LAMS shaping up?
- What are the challenges for individuals and organisations?
- Where will Learning Design standards take us now?
- What can we learn from efforts to create generic learning design patterns?
Sub Themes
- Open source and open design
- Open sharing of Learning Designs: Open licensing and Creative Commons
- Finding the tools and pedagogies for the next generation of e-learners
- Using Learning Design for strategic change in education
- Building communities of practice - opportunities and challenges
- Issues of collaboration and generating new knowledge
- Sharing and reuse - barriers and questions of practice
- Learning Design and the Library of the Future
- Who controls the curriculum?
- Student and teacher generated designs
- Lessons learnt from K-12
- Future directions and the needs of vocational and professional education
- Technical standards, architecture and tools
