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Blues skies thinking for
design and OER
Gráinne Conole,
The Open University, UK
University of Limerick, 11th May 09

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Redefining “openness”
Open source, open tools &
services, Open Educational
Resources
Free, shared, collabor
ative, cumulatively
better..
“Open Design”

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ltc.umanitoba.ca/blogs/futurecourse/

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

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A mediating layer
Mediating artifacts
Lesson plans
Step by step guides
Mediating
Online tools
artifacts
Pedagogical patterns
“Expert other”
Learning Activity
Creates Design
Teacher Has an
or an OER
inherent
Vygotsky

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Open Educational Resources
Learning Design

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Pedagogical patterns
 Means of describing learning activities
 Builds
on notion of design patterns from Architecture
(Alexander, 1977)
format – problem plus solution
 Specific
 Presented in terms of a problem to be solved:
 Context
 Problem
 Analysis
 Solution
 Example

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Collaborative patterns
Examples of different ways of
structuring collaborations
Jigsaw
Think-pair-share
YannisDimitriadis et al., University of Valladolid

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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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, learner support
& tools, tools & resources for teachers, resources
for quality assurance… (Unesco, 2004)

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Types of OERs
Size and granularity
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Format and media
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Pedagogy – neutral
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vs. embedded

Learning Design
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Tools, methods
and
approaches to
facilitate with
the design of
better learning
activities

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OU Learning Design Initiative
Representing pedagogy
Empirical
evidence
base
Guiding design Sharing ideas

Representation: CompendiumLD
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Core icon set
Design icon set

Building a design
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Activity
Assignment
Outcome
Resource
Role
Stop
Task
Tool

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Key features
Time allocation for tasks
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In-situ help
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Guiding templates
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Conditional branching
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Cloudworks
Clouds:
Learning & teaching ideas
Design or case studies
Tools or resources
Questions or problems
Cloudscapes:
Conferences
Workshops
Course team
Student cohort
Research theme
Project

Putting them together

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Illustrative example

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Illustrative example
Deposits
OER
Creates
Teacher A
Deposits
Design
Quiz + beginners route
Uses
Student A
OER Quiz + advanced route
Student B Uses
Chooses
Design
Repurposes
Teacher B & deposits

Prior designs
Process design New designs
& resources
Clouds in
Cloudworks
OER repositories
New OER
& designs
Pedagogical
Patterns

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Conclusion
 Mismatch between potential of technologies and
actual use is one of the key challenges of e-learning
research
 Need to combine collective wisdom
 Vision is to develop an evolving suite of
tools, resources, methods, and approaches to
facilitate teachers and learners coupled with a
vibrant community discussing learning and teaching
ideas and designs

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Acknowledgements
Many people involved but want to thank in particular:
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Olnet/Openlearn: Patrick McAndrew, YannisDemitriadis, Tina
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Wilson, Niall Sclater
OULDI: Andrew Brasher, Juliette Culver, Simon Cross, Paul
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Clark, Martin Weller
Funders
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The William and Flora Hewlett foundation, the JISC, the Open
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University for strategic funding

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Images
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