FLeD Learning Design Tool: Scaffolding Flexible Scenarios Through the Use of Flipped Learning Patterns

This demo paper presents a web-based learning design tool that aims to support university teachers in designing flexible learning scenarios. Its purpose is to pedagogically guide teachers in the design and decision-making process of flexible learning. The tool uses flipped learning patterns as the basis for their designs, and a scaffolding system to facilitate the adaptability of the learning designs to diverse components (digital, inclusiveness and learning regulation). The tool offers automatic recommendations during the design, based on the pattern the user selected at the beginning of the process. Specifically, three patterns are offered to guide teachers in addressing educational needs during flexible and flipped learning by providing strategies to: promote feedback exchange, enhance students’ self-regulation during prior preparation, and regulate and manage student collaboration. Moreover, the system offers a playful path to guide and engage teachers throughout the learning design process and community features for teachers to see and reuse other teachers’ designs shared within the platform. The tool has been designed and developed in the context of a European project and tested by 20 lecturers in five countries.