Pedagogic planning is the process of developing a schema for a learning activity or session, which defines and may organise in advance some aspects of the learning environment, interactions, tasks, scheduling, and resources. The JISC Design for Learning programme funded the development of two Pedagogy Planning tools and a number of smaller-scale applications, and was instrumental in the development of an international community of interest in pedagogic or educational planning. Pedagogic planning projects are also associated with research into how academic staff in reality plan and design the curriulum.

See also learning design.

The KUBE pedagogic planning tool has enabled curriculum managers and lecturing teams to employ educational technologies in a clearly structured and cohesive format.  This has facilitated the embedding of these technologies within curriculum delivery and thus eliminated the perception of educational technology as an ‘optional extra’.  This tool has now been adopted throughout the institution and is already reaping benefits in other curriculum areas. KUBE project

An alternative approach, giving learners a tool to plan their own personal learning pathway through a complex curriculum, has been pioneered by the Dynamic Learning Maps project.

Pedagogy planning tools and applications available via the Design Studio

• Phoebe
• The London Pedagogic Planner
• Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE)
• LOAM (Learning Object Attribute Metric) tool
• Compendium LD
• DialogPlus toolkit

See also JISC Curriculum Design programme Cluster C