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Introduction

This process is articulated by a series of design patterns:

Participatory Pattern Workshops

• Case stories workshop
• Pattern mining workshop
• Future Scenarios Workshop

These are assisted by:

• Draw and Tell
• Three Hats
• This Reminds Me Of...
• Table-top Concept Mapping
• Mapping Forces

Design patterns

The idea of design patterns originates with Christopher Alexander, a theoretician of architecture. http://www.patternlanguage.com

• Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein (1977) A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Christopher Alexander and Howard Davis and Julio Martinez and Don Corner (1985) The Production of Houses. Oxford University Press, New York, NY,
• Christopher Alexander (1979) The Timeless Way of Building Oxford University Press.

Patterns in software engineering

Alexander’s ideas were picked up by the computer science community. The "gang of four" book which started the pattern trend in software design is:

• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Originally published 1995, new edition, 2005) Addison-Wesley Pearson Education.

See also this by one of the authors:

• John Vlissides (1998) Pattern Hatching: Design Patterns Applied Addison-Wesley Longman.

Further reading:

• http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/patterns-intro.html
• http://hillside.net/

Patterns in interaction design:

• Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong. (2007) The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall.
• Jan Borchers and Frank Buschmann (2001) A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design John Wiley & Sons.
• Till Schummer, Stephan Lukosch (2007) Patterns for Computer-Mediated Interaction. Wiley.

The Interface Design Team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has produced a beautiful pattern browser for information visualization.

Martijn van Welie maintains a repository of patterns for interaction design.

There's also Yahoo's design pattern library.

Patterns in participatory design

• Andy Dearden and Janet Finlay and Elizabeth Allgar and Barbara Mcmanus (2002), Patterns Languages in Participatory Design. in People and Computers XVII: Memorable yet Invisible, Proceedings of HCI'2002, page159-174. Springer Verlag.

In civic empowerment

Liberating voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601

In education

Pedagogical patterns: http://www.pedagogicalpatterns.org/ Go to this website to get an overview of the first project that brought the idea of design patterns to education. It has example patterns. Good examples:

• http://www.jeckstein.com/pedagogicalPatterns/pedagogicalPatterns.html
• http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/PedPat1.3.html
• http://ianchaiwriting.50megs.com/classroom-ed.html

The E-LEN project http://www2.tisip.no/E-LEN/ has a pattern repository and a list of publications.

Some more references:

• Peter Goodyear (2004) Patterns, pattern languages and educational design. ASCILITE Conference, Perth, Western Australia,

Overview of our approach

Workshops

We have developed a model of multiple workshops for participatory pattern-based design research in educational technology.

The workshop methodology extends the IDR methodology developed in the course of the Learning Patterns project. This has been documented in several papers:
Yishay Mor and Niall Winters (2007), Design approaches in technology enhanced learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 15(1): 61-75, 2007. http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/browse?resource=223

Yishay Mor and Niall Winters (2008) Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language. Journal of Interactive Media, 2008. http://jime.open.ac.uk/2008/13/

Niall Winters and Yishay Mor (2008) IDR: a participatory methodology for interdisciplinary design in technology enhanced learning Computers and Education, 50(2): 579-600, http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/browse?resource=1195

It is also demonstrated in a series of videos at: http://patternlanguagenetwork.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Outcomes/Methodology

Workshop I: Collecting Case Stories

The S.T.A.R.R Template

Workshop II: From cases to patterns

Workshop III: back to practice - applying patterns to scenarios