Thinking About the Learning Design: Theories, Models, Frameworks, and Heuristics
People have been studying how humans learn and theorizing about ways to support their learning for many years. This chapter addresses the importance of using relevant concepts and empirical based knowledge of human learning to inform the design and development of the open shared learning objects and sequences. This chapter may be one of the more challenging ones given the number of potential concepts and data that may inform design practice, and also given that there are many different preferences that open shared learning designers and developers may have in their selections. The core idea is that designing for learning centeredness benefits from knowledge of human learning and thought through and informed processes in learning design.