MODEL-DRIVEN DESIGN: SYSTEMATICALLY BUILDING INTEGRATED BLENDED LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Authors

  • Stephen Laster

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v14i1.1637

Keywords:

Model-driven design, blended learning, systems thinking

Abstract

Developing and delivering curricula that are integrated and that use blended learning techniques requires a highly orchestrated design.


While institutions have demonstrated the ability to design complex curricula on an ad-hoc basis, these projects are generally successful at a great human and capital cost.


Model-driven design provides a sustainable approach that reduces some of the cost of complex curriculum development and improves the sustainability of curriculum innovation.


Systems thinking is a perspective for going beyond events, to looking for patterns of behavior, and to seeking underlying systemic interrelationships which are responsible for the patterns of behavior and the events.

 

Model-driven design provides the ability to share models and learning units beyond the borders of the institution.

References

Gene Bellinger http://www.outsights.com/systems/systhink/systhink.htm

McConnell, S. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1996.

Babson College Web Site http://www3.babson.edu/UG/academics/intermediate-program.cfm

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Published

2019-01-25

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Empirical Studies

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