Conole Cambridge

Innovation through design: new approaches to learning &teaching Gráinne Conole, Open University, UK The Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning Cambridge University, 24/09/09 More info, slides and references: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/ cloud/view/2282 http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/ 11190_3_JLB%20PREFERRED%20External %20Image%201000px%20wide.jpg

Outline
The paradoxes between the promise and reality of technologoes
Why do so many innovations fail?
Connecting research and practice and towards a vision for open design
Illustrative case studies: OU Learning Design Initiative & Olnet (an Open Educational Resource Network)
Reflections and questions in cloudworks!

Paradoxes New technologies offer new pedagogical opportunities Potential for reuse with Open Educational Resources Liberating learning beyond formal structures Open Educational Resources Little evidence of reuse Array of technologies Not fully exploited New pedagogies New learning models

Why do great initiatives often fail?
Common reactions:
“ I haven’t got time ”
“ My research is more important”
“ What’s in it for me ?”
“ Where is my reward ?”
“ I don’t have the skills to do this”
“ I don’t believe in this, it won’t work”
Common resistance strategies:
I’ll say yes (and do nothing )
Undermine the initiative
Undermine the person involved
Do it badly
Classic mistakes :
Emphasis on the technologies , not the people and processes
Funding for technology developments but not use and support

The solution? Connection… Institutional & national funding Embedding in strategy Aligning to technology trends Changing user behaviour Drivers and challenges Actual use in practice What’s in it for me? Evidence of impact Policy Teacher practice Research & development The learner’s experience

Bridging the gap Personalised Situative Social Experiential Reflective Adaptive Contextual Networked Immersive Collective “ Open Design” Characteristics of good pedagogy Affordances of new technologies

Open Design: a definition/approach
Aims to widen access to good ideas and designs, to share practice
Design for all types of learning activity
Formal course
Individual learning activity
Informal study group activity
Blurring of boundaries
Teacher – Learner
Formal – informal
Real – virtual
Principles
Open
Sharable
Explicit: design process explicit & sharable
Designers and users
Builds on open source principles
Assessment Learning outcomes Tasks Aspects of design

Realising “open design” Evidence base (interviews, surveys, observation, web stats, expert panels, focus groups) Development (resources, methods, tools, session types, interventions) Trialing (within the OU, workshops & conferences, project partners) Open University Learning Design Initiative & The Olnet network

OU Learning Design Initiative Design methods: schema & patterns Tools: Visualisation & guidance Events: Cloudworks: sharing & discussing

Olnet: redefining openness

Converging practices
Modern technologies
Modern pedagogy
Web 2.0 practices
Location aware technologies
Adaptation & customisation
Second life/ immersive worlds
Google it!
“ Expert badges” , World of warcraft
User- generated content
Blogging, peer critiquing
Cloud computing
From individual to social
Contextualised and situated learning
Personalised learning
Experiential learning
Inquiry learning
Peer learning
Open Educational Resources
Reflection
Distributed cognition

Cloudworks: Harnessing web 2.0

Key concepts Clouds: Learning & teaching ideas Design or case studies Tools or resources Questions or problems Cloudscapes: Conferences Workshops Course team Student cohort Research theme Project

User profile

Activity stream

Features
Dynamic list of clouds + new comments
Comments on clouds + cloudscapes
Can “follow” people + cloudscapes
RSS feeds of cloudscapes + people
Embedding: pictures, video, presentations
Twitter feeds for people +cloudscapes
Email alerts
Activity streams

Emergent patterns of use
Events: conferences and workshops
ALT-C conference , 8-11 th September 2009
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloudscape/view/1870
Discussions: Flash debates
Is Twitter killing blogging?
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloud/view/2266
Eliciting expertise
Literature review of educational technologist
Aggregating resources
En Rumbo Spanish course

Open design and mediation Can we develop new innovative mediating artefacts? How can we make the design more explicit and sharable ? Designer Design Has an inherent Learning activity or OER Creates Mediating artefacts
Mediating artefacts
Visualisation: CompendiumLD
Methods: Schema & patterns
Sharing: Cloudworks
User – can now repurpose

Open Design in practice

Design, use, reuse Designer OER Design Creates Deposits Deposits Learner A OER Design Learner B Tutor Chooses Uses Quiz + beginners route Uses Quiz + advanced route Repurposes & deposits

Process design Prior designs & resources New designs Content: (OER repositories, etc) Designs: (Pedagogical Patterns, CompendiumLD designs) New OER & designs

Conclusions
Motivation : helping teachers/designers make more innovative use of technologies to create better learner experiences
Approach : development of a range of resources, tools, methods and events to support this
Evidence-base and agile development : on-going evaluation and reflection to enhance understanding and drive future developments
Reflection : How effective is this? Where to next? Is it transferable? How “open” can we really expect teachers/learners to be?

Innovation through design: new approaches to learning &teaching Gráinne Conole, Open University, UK The Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning Cambridge University, 24/09/09 More info, slides and references: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/ cloud/view/2282 http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/ 11190_3_JLB%20PREFERRED%20External %20Image%201000px%20wide.jpg

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