Tool: Pedagogy profile

This is an experimental widget and so would welcome feedback. The tool is designed to help teachers (or learners) map different typs of student activities across a course or sequence of learning events. The work derives from a learning activity taxonomy (Conole, 2007; Conole 2008) that characterises the types of tasks learners undertake into six types:

• Assimilative (attending and understanding content),
• Information handling (e.g. gathering and classifying resources or manipulating data),
• Adaptive (use of modelling or simulation software),
• Communicative (dialogic activities, e.g. pair dialogues or group-based discussions),
• Productive (construction of an artefact such as a written essay, new chemical compound or a sculpture) and
• Experiential (practising skills in a particular context or undertaking an investigation). 
• In addition the tool looks at the spread of assessment acros the course or sequence of learning activiites.

Modelling

• Each row can represent a "unit of time" - so this might be a week, month or block. For each unit you then fill in the amount of time (say for example number of hours).  Fill in each of the cells in the matrix
• Click "add' or 'delete' to vary the number of rows
• Click update to see the completed profile
• Profiles can be printed or saved as PDFs