How to Integrate Learning Design into Existing Practice

Abstract

What does it take for an institution to adopt the Learning Design specification (LD 2003) for the design, development and delivery of its courses? What are the implications at an organizational level? These questions will be addressed in this chapter, drawing on the experiences gained at the Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL) with the deployment of EML. EML is the XML-based Educational Modelling Language developed at the Open University and later integrated in LD as the basis for the modelling of learning designs (EML 2000).