Diana Laurillard and Liz Masterman: Re-envisioning Pedagogic Planning: the Learning Designer

We present the Learning Designer, a microworld to support teachers in designing pedagogy, based upon a principled, theory driven approach and supported by an artificial intelligence engine. By providing several representations of learning designs at the micro and macro level, the system provides a way for teachers to reflect upon their work and makes it easy for them to share and reuse the designs of others. Our preliminary user research with teachers in Higher Education has shown that teachers can see how they would use the Learning Designer in their own practice.