The Learning Design Specification

2.7 Conclusions

The use of general languages such as HTML or proprietary scripting languages to describe learning processes leads to unnecessary difficulty in documenting teaching strategies and reusing elements of existing teaching materials.

LD, an open technical specification, allows learning designers to model, in a generic, formal way, who does what, when and with which content and services in order to achieve learning objectives. It allows processes to be designed that include several roles, each of which can be played by several people. It enables their activities to be specified in coordinated learning flows that are analogous to groupware workflows, and it supports group and collaborative learning of many different kinds. Using the LD language, designers are able to talk in terms of pedagogy rather than technology, helping to bring learning to the forefront in e-learning.