Curated Design Patterns

Curated Design Patterns

Brad Griffith - December 9, 2016

There are many great design patterns that have been shared in this cohort so far.  I have selected a few here that I thought would be some of the most beneficial or relatable to me.

1. Kelly's Individual Facilitation Sessions

This model stood out to me due to the mixture of contexts and the learner-focused facilitation of a workshop or class session.  I have often done this, but not provided much guidance in advance of the person's experience about how to actually facilitate a session.  I appreciate the additional opportunity to provide feedback that she has placed in this environment.

2.  Rhonda's Learner Facilitation of Discussion

This model stood out to me due to its similarity in my eyes to that which Kelly made, but having a different way of accomplishing it.  Here, Rhonda has created a learning environment in which the learners are responsible for facilitating a post classroom session discussion.  This pattern does a good job of offering a continuance of the classroom learning environment to the asynchronous context.

 3.  Stacy's Mentoring Session

What an exciting pattern this was.  I appreciated the mixture of contexts here and I think Stacy has spoken to the intensive nature of the mentoring relationship in a learning environment through this variety.  I would feel very comfortable using this model to communicate expectations of a mentoring interaction when training someone to do that.

4.  Stacy's Short Paper

Stacy has captured the essence of a short paper very well in this pattern.  Simplicity is key here, specifically because I have noted that there is absence of a practice block and the synchronous-classroom setting is reserved only for questions about the assignment.  I can see the Paper Guidelines as being a very important part of this pattern that will affect the timing and transition between each step.

5.  Weekly Seminar Meetings

I liked this model because it allowed me to reflect upon a negative learning experience I had in graduate school.  I took an incredibly complicated philosophy seminar course that focused on the works of Giambattista Vico.  It was very old fashioned in that the professor provided us all of the readings for the course in paper and we had no interaction outside of class or opportunity to ask questions about the readings.  This pattern incorporates a digital scaffold that would permit there to be greater reflective questioning in advance of the classroom session, along with providing a way for learners to reflect after the classroom session using the new knowledge they gained from the peer discussion.