Students participating in the learning design process using LAMS

This paper outlines the “Student Learning Designers Using LAMS” Project which evaluated students as designers of learning activities and addressed some of the issues that teachers may encounter when attempting a similar implementation themselves. LAMS was chosen as the design tool with which the students would work. Its flexibility allowed them to explore new ways of learning and enabled them to produce a wide diversity of designs. The ‘students as designers’ approach challenges transmission models of pedagogy and requires teachers to relinquish some control to their students so that they might have the space to play and discover how to learn. This project demonstrated that when students were empowered to design their own learning activities, they can deeply engage in the learning process.