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This chapter provides a definition for the term ‘design language’ and provides examples of how it is used in other professional domains. It summarises the research on design languages and considers how this relates to the notion of a learning design language. It argues that design is a key feature of many professions and considers design practices in three disciplines, music, architecture and chemistry, and describes how design approaches have been developed in each of these. It then summarises some of the key characteristics of design practice that emerge and explores the implications of these in terms of the application of design principles to an educational context.

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  1. 1.

    http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk/

  2. 2.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk

  3. 3.

    OU courses are designed by teams of academics; associated lecturers then support the learning and mark assignments.

  4. 4.

    Tutor-marked assignments.

  5. 5.

    This is discussed in more detail in Chapter 11.

  6. 6.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk

  7. 7.

    Derived from Beetham and Sharpe (2007, p. 29).

  8. 8.

    http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/

  9. 9.

    http://www.reload.ac.uk/ldeditor.html

  10. 10.

    http://coppercore.sourceforge.net/

  11. 11.

    http://www.gsic.uva.es/collage/

  12. 12.

    http://www.cogigraph.com/Produits/MOTetMOTplus/tabid/995/language/en-US/Default.aspx

  13. 13.

    http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.0/

  14. 14.

    http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/

  15. 15.

    http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/exemplars/info/LD44/index.html

  16. 16.

    http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/mod4l/

  17. 17.

    http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/

  18. 18.

    http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/exemplars/info/LD42/more/03Context.html

  19. 19.

    See learning design—LDLite.

  20. 20.

    http://ouldi.open.ac.uk

  21. 21.

    These pedagogical planner tools are discussed in Chapter 10.

  22. 22.

    http://moodle.org/

  23. 23.

    http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/curriculum

  24. 24.

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/1882

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    http://cloudworks.ac.uk

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Conole, G. (2012). Design Languages and Learning Design. In: Designing for Learning in an Open World. Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8517-0_7

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