Participatory Pattern Workshops

The Participatory Pattern Workshop methodology has emerged from a series of workshops facilitated over several years. These workshops brought together practitioners from a wide range of fields and engaged them in intense conversations about issues regarding technology and education. Such conversations are rooted in participants’ personal experiences, driven by the problems they have overcome, and aimed at collaborative articulation of their design knowledge; knowledge of how to get things done. We call these workshops Collaborative Reflection Workshops.
The process described goes beyond a single workshop. Over the years, we have identified a structure of three consecutive workshops; a Design Narratives Workshop, a Pattern Mining Workshop and aDesign scenarios Workshop. Together, these form what we call the Participatory Patterns Workshops framework.
Links to extended descriptions:

Yishay Mor, and Niall Winters. Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language. In Patrick McAndrew, Steve Godwin, Ale Okada, and Andreia Santos (Eds.), Journal of Interactive Media, 2008. URL

Niall Winters, and Yishay Mor. Dealing with abstraction: Case study generalisation as a method for eliciting design patterns. Computers in Human Behavior, (25)5:1079-1088, 2009. URL

Yishay Mor, Harvey Mellar, Norbert Pachler, and Caroline Daly. Formative e-Assessment: case stories, design patterns and future scenarios. In Christian Kohls, and Joachim Wedekind (Eds.), Problems Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors Solutions, Information Science Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2011. 

Caroline Daly, Norbert Pachler, Yishay Mor, and Harvey Mellar. Exploring formative e-assessment: Using case stories and design patterns. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, (35)5:619 - 636, 2010. URL

Yishay Mor. Embedding Design Patterns in a Methodology for a Design Science of e-Learning. In Christian Kohls, and Joachim Wedekind (Eds.), Problems Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors Solutions, Information Science Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2011. URL

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