Learning designs: Bridging the gap between theory and practice

This paper summarises the work being conducted in an ongoing research agenda focused

on exploring how the learning design construct can be used to support university

educators to create both pedagogically sound and interoperable e-learning experiences. The

premise of this work is that a learning design can be used to support the pedagogical design

process and the integration of international e-learning standards, such as learning object

metadata and IMS-LD, enabling resources and tools to be technically interoperable across

different standards-compliant systems. The paper presents the rationale guiding this

research focus, describes the features of the research that is underway, and outlines future

directions of this research.