An Instructional Engineering Method and Tool for the Design of Units of Learning

Gilbert Paquette (1) , Ileana de La Teja (1) , Michel Leonard (1) , Karin Lundgren-Cayrol (1) , Olga Marino (1)

1 Centre LICEF - TÉLUQ - Laboratoire d'Informatique Cognitive et d'Environnements de Formation - Téluq, l'université à distance de l'UQAM

This chapter discusses how to build IMS learning designs focusing on three aspects, instructional engineering, modeling tools and graphical design techniques. First, we propose that instructional designers use a systemic and systematic instructional engineering method to build Units of Learning conforming to the IMS-LD specification. MISA, a mature instructional engineering method will serve as the basis to our design approach. Second, we present a graphical modeling tool, MOT+, and a representation technique that was created to support instructional engineering. In MOT+, concepts, procedures and principles are used to describe all IMS-LD components as well as their relationships. We believe this graphical language to be closer to instructional designers, in that it represents a more pedagogical viewpoint than software engineering graphical languages like UML, while still enabling an automatic translation from graphical models into a machine-readable IMS-LD XML. Third, we will provide an example of the design processes involved in building learning designs, from the preliminary analysis to the definition of a unit of learning method, the central part of the IMS Learning Design.

Keywords: IMS learning design (LD); learning design standards; modelling tool; instructional engineering method

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Gilbert Paquette, Ileana de La Teja, Michel Leonard, Karin Lundgren-Cayrol, Olga Marino. An Instructional Engineering Method and Tool for the Design of Units of Learning. Koper Rob, Tattersall Colin. Learning Design: A Handbook on Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and Training, Springer Verlag, pp.161-184, 2005. ⟨hal-00190666⟩