This presentation is about the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) developed at Macquarie University in Australia. It is a powerful tool to help teachers develop courses using student centric activity based social constructivism

1. It’s All About the
Students
The eLearning Team
The University of Adelaide Australia
April 2012
Their engagement, their
learning, their outcomes and
their future success
Introducing LAMS
Learning Design for Time Strapped
Academics who want good learning
outcomes for their students
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2. ICT Literacy
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3. Introducing Allan
University of Adelaide
North Terrace Adelaide SA
Telephone: +61 8 8303 8085
Email: allan.carrington@adelaide.edu.au
• Learning Designer with the eLearning Team
• Two Masters Degrees - Education (online) &
Interactive Multimedia
• Apple Distinguished Educator
• Winner 2011 Uni Adelaide Award for Excellence in
Support of the Student Experience
• Background in printing, publishing, web development
& educational multimedia
• Worked in corporate & VET sectors
• Travelled to 20+ countries & led schools in Hawaii,
Texas & Paraguay
• Taught communications, market research, print
production & using the internet for education
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4. What would you like to take away from these two sessions?
How many participants familiar with LAMS?
Uni Adelaide
Teachers?
Uni Adelaide
Support?
Others
How many teach remote
students ?
Anyone used LAMS as a teacher or a student?
How many have used
student response system?
We need some Demographics
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5. LAMS helps you shift
•Develops collaborative lesson plans
•Digital equivalent to F2F
collaboration
•Enables global collaboration
•Ways of capturing lesson plans
with a digital interface
•Huge time saver
•Learning Design made easy
Learning Activity Management System
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6. •Collaboration and activity
driven
•Analogue is the
classroom
•Captures lesson plans
•Allows for storage, reuse
and sharing of lessons
What is LAMS
Released in December 2010
•The activity planner
available in Lessonlams
•Introduction of
Lessonlams
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7. Introduction to Lesson LAMS
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8. http://www.lessonlams.com
Free Resource
for a teacher
and 30 students
- a curriculum
design resource
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9. Home Page
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10. Launching a Lesson
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11. Students create their
own accounts
Create student
accounts yourself
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12. Activity Planner
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13. •Teaching Styles (Learning models)
•New Ideas - e.g.adding interactivity to lectures
•Online teaching approaches
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14. Teaching Strategies
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15. Introducing New Ideas
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18. LAMS Activity Planner
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19. LAMS@Adelaide Rollout
•Semester One 2012; 3-5 academics from each
faculty using LAMS. Manual Login but easy
•Numbers of students not restricted
•Corey and myself will be giving any needed
support ... pedagogical and technically
•Semester 2 first half: MyUni building block
available in myUni for LAMS users. 5-10
academics per faculty
•Develop research like evaluation and
encourage papers and conference
presentation
•Semester 2 second half forward: available
via myUni menus
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20. Virtual Patient: Buster
Developed by: Laura Hardefeldt, Lecturer in Equine Medicine,
School of Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
Editing View
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21. Buster: Learner View
Developed by: Laura Hardefeldt, Lecturer in Equine Medicine,
School of Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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22. http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/
lamsdocs/LAMS+Tutorials
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