Introduction to the Special Issue on Ethnographic Experiences in Learning Design

Management education has the potential to play a vital role in today’s dynamic business environment. Management degrees continue to experience strong enrolments at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. However, despite, or perhaps as a result of this popularity, management educators face a number of challenges associated with the changing demographics of the student cohort and the large size of classes. Responding to these challenges has resulted in the need for management educators to adopt innovative teaching strategies. This special issue of the Journal of Learning Design considers a range of pedagogical innovations and reflections that are focussed on these challenges and what they mean for the ways management education is done in and beyond the classroom.

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Special Issue on Mobile AR & VR: Integrating SOTEL in Learning Design

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology ◽

10.14742/ajet.4132 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Thomas Cochrane ◽

Helen Farley

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Technology Enhanced Learning ◽

Learning Design ◽

Mobile Augmented Reality ◽

Special Issue ◽

Educational Impact ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Solid Foundation ◽

Mobile Ar ◽

Enhanced Learning

This special issue of AJET explores the critical educational use of the recently popularized technologies of mobile augmented reality (AR) and mobile virtual reality (VR). The advent of Pokemon Go brought the world’s awareness of mobile AR to a brief climax, and the hype surrounding the rise of affordable virtual reality technologies has been driven by social media giants Google and Facebook, and subsequent uptake by the main smartphone manufacturers. With the ubiquity of smartphone ownership among our students this presents a unique opportunity to explore the educational impact of these symbiotic technologies and their emergent ecosystems. While it is early days for research in these domains, we were interested in exploring beyond the technological hype to finding examples of integrating these technologies within learning designs that scaffold learner-generated content and contexts based upon a solid foundation of the scholarship of technology enhanced learning. The six articles in this special issue give us insights into these critical issues.

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Special issue: Legal education and curriculum renewal

Journal of Learning Design ◽

10.5204/jld.v8i2.237 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Judith McNamara ◽

Rachael Field

Keyword(s):

Legal Education ◽

Learning Design ◽

Special Edition ◽

Special Issue ◽

Curriculum Renewal

Welcome to this special edition of the Journal of Learning Design which focuses on legal education and curriculum renewal in law. At the outset ,we would like to thank the editors of the Journal, Margaret Lloyd and Nan Bahr for agreeing to host this special edition. The special edition is timely as legal education in Australia is enjoying a lively period of renewal.

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Special Issue on Learning Design Research: Mapping the terrain

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology ◽

10.14742/ajet.4390 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Eva Dobozy ◽

Leanne Cameron

Keyword(s):

Educational Research ◽

Design Research ◽

Technology Enhanced Learning ◽

Learning Design ◽

Integrated Process ◽

Special Issue ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Enhanced Learning

Learning Design as a field of educational research and practice is gaining traction internationally. Not only is Learning Design now acknowledged as a complex and integrated process, demanding specialised knowledge and skills, it is a field of technology enhanced learning and teaching that is forward looking and globally focused. This special issue is unable to provide a unified position of what Learning Design is or resolve the debate, but it is able to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity of this field of educational research and practice. It also showcases some of the cutting edge work currently conducted internationally in Learning Design research and development

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