Learning Design with Context in Mind

I went through my draft blog entries and I found this one from 2013. It was supposed to accompany my chapter in Ally & Tsinakos' Book on Mobile Learning. Recently, Marion and I worked on a different book chapter, in which we built on the same concepts. This post discusses why I found it necessary to extend Engestöm's Activity Theory model and what insights on learning design re-arranging the activity components yielded.

Adapted Activity Theory Layer 1 Instruments T ools Subject Actors Object Resources Rules Learning tasks Support tasks Context Learning Outcomes 2013, Christian Glahn, lo-f.at Resources T ools Subject Actors T opic Rules Learning tasks Support tasks Context Learning Outcomes 2017, Christian Glahn, lo-f.at