How Authoring Content for Personalised Learning May Cultivate Learning Design Skills

摘要

In this paper we investigate how authoring content for personalized learning may cultivate learning design skills. Especially, we initially present the authoring environment of INSPIRE us focusing on the flexibility it offers in designing learning scenarios. Then learning scenarios developed for INSPIRE us by the students of an MSc course at the University of Athens reflecting alternative pedagogical design approaches, are presented and discussed. Students through the authoring process had to deal with issues about the content nature, structure, form of presentation, interactivity, personalization, and finally develop artifacts that effectively combine technology, pedagogy, and content. Although authoring is a quite demanding process, its added value was acknowledged by the students and reflected to the increase of the possibilities of reusing the system as indicated through the SUS questionnaires they submitted before and the after the authoring process.