Conole Wilson Eden Workshop

Gráinne Conole & Tina Wilson The Open University, UK Eden 2009, Gdansk, 11 th June 2009

Awareness of resources to support the design of OERs

Overview of the OLnet initiative

Hands on experience of some of the OLnet tools and ideas

Understanding of how the OLnet can be applied in their own teaching context.

Introduction

OER overview

Activity: Think-pair-share exercise

Representing designs

Introduction to Olnet

Design example – reuse of a Spanish OER

Activity: redesign “introducing social work practice”

Conclusion and evaluation

The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes (UNESCO 2002)

Learning resources Courseware, content modules, learning objects, learner support & assessment tools, online learning communities Resources to support teachers Tools for teachers and support materials to enable them to create, adapt and use OER; training materials for teachers Resources to assure the quality of education and educational practices (UNESCO 2004)

Broader notion beyond content More of a focus on sharing, refinement, iteration, critical reflection OER as a potential catalyst to transforming educational practice

New technologies offer new pedagogical opportunities Potential for reuse with Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources Little evidence of reuse Array of technologies Not fully exploited

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

Open source, open tools and services, Open Educational Resources Free, shared, collaborative, cumulatively better.. “ Open Design” Principles Open Sharable Explicit Assessment Learning outcomes Tasks

Vygotsky Can we develop new innovative mediating artifacts? How can we make the design more explicit and sharable ? Designer Design Has an inherent OER Creates Mediating artifacts Mediating artifacts Lesson plans Step by step guides Online tools Pedagogical patterns “ Expert other” Olnet tools User

Think of a resource you have created

Describe its inherent design

Share with the person next to you

Share with the wider group

Design implicit, difficult to represent

Different representations emphasise different aspects of the design

Activity has a “design” “Think-pair-share” pedagogical pattern

Value of visual representations

Swim lines:

roles + tasks,

resources + tools

Network Research Fellowships

From producing open resources to use of open resources

Build capacity

Find evidence

Refine the issues

OLnet Sharing Researching Discussing Representing

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 Clouds in Cloudworks Pedagogical Patterns OER repositories New OER & designs

Aim is to make an OER more collaborative

Explore the introduction to social work practice OER

Represent the design of the OER visually using the CompendiumLD notation

Explore the collaborative pedagogical patterns

Use the patterns to make an aspect of the OER more collaborative

Nominate someone to go to another group and share your redesign

Many people involved but want to thank in particular:

Patrick McAndrew = Director of Olnet

Yannis Demitriadis – Olnet visiting professor

Andrew Brasher – CompendiumLD developer

Funders

The William and Flora Hewlett foundation, the JISC, the Open University for strategic funding

Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Buckingham Shum, S. (forthcoming), A new approach to supporting the design and use of OER: Harnessing the power of web 2.0, M. Edner and M. Schiefner (eds), Looking toward the future of technology enhanced education: ubiquitous learning and the digital nature.