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Table 1 Curriculum organized around activities cultivating solid types of knowledge, starting from TK, PK and incrementally combining them in TCK, TPK and TPACK

From: Learning design as a vehicle for developing TPACK in blended teacher training on technology enhanced learning

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Topic

Tasks/Activities

Type of knowledge

1

Educational & multimedia resources on the Internet

F2F workshop on educational & multimedia resources on the Internet.

Individual Assignments: Find and evaluate web resources for their discipline and share with peers through the class forum commenting on the usefulness of such resources in their discipline.

TK

TCK

2

Web 2.0 tools for graphical representations (word clouds, timelines, mind maps), digital story telling (prezi, comics, interactive posters, video), assessment (rubrics, crossword, puzzles)

F2F workshops on the use of various categories of Web 2.0 tools

Individual Assignments: Develop artefacts using specific tools such as prezi, glogster, pixton, video authoring, and comment on the usefulness of the specific tools for their discipline in the class forum

TK

TCK

3

Pedagogical framework, Teaching/Didactic techniques

F2F workshop on designing activities based on the Learning by Design (LbyD) framework using appropriate teaching/didactic techniques

PK

4

Learning Design tools for Course Authoring

F2F workshop on LAMS as an authoring environment for technology enhanced learning courses

Collaborative Assignment: Develop and author a learning design based on the LbyD framework, working in groups synchronously / asynchronously and using a system such as LAMS, INSPIREus or Learning Designer (a choice depending on the target group's technical expertise)

TK

TPK

TPACK