The 8 Learning Events Model (8LEM): A Pedagogic Conceptual Framework for the Design of Dedicated (and Generic?) Scenarios

LabSET (Support Laboratory for Telematic Learning) – ULg (University of Liège) developed, in close collaboration with higher education teachers willing to "go online", more than 100 distance courses, representing a large spectrum of disciplines and a wide range of teaching/learning objectives, methods and challenges. For those courses, LabSET used the "8 Learning Events Model" (Leclercq & Poumay, 2005) as its pedagogic reference framework and a starting point in decision making about instructional design. In the context of the iClass European project, our institution undertook research work intended to fix whether the 8LEM, employed so far for initiating and facilitating the design of dedicated units of learning, could guide the creation of generic pedagogic scenarios, i.e. scenarios stripped of their situated features and, therefore, more likely to be reused. This article presents this work-in-progress and the reference model it flows from.