1. OU Learning Design Initiative
Agenda: Brunel Blened Design Workshop
Outline of the day
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2. Time Focus
9.30 – 9.45 Arrival activity
Setting personal and team objectives
9.45 – 9.55 Welcome and introductions OU Learning Design Initiative
9.55 – 10.15 Derek K Milligan - Blended Learning at Brunel
Agenda: Brunel Blened Design Workshop
10.15 – 10.35 Activity: How to ruin a course
This activity will focus on the key issues and strategies that impact
on the success (or otherwise) of learning and teaching within your
context. The output of this activity will be a team checklist which
will be used as one of the design evaluation tools in the design
review and at the end of the workshop.
10.35 – 11.15 Activity: ‘At a glance’ course map
We will propose 5 key components of a course:
o Guidance and support
o Information and experience
o Communication and experience
o Thinking and reflection
o Evidence and demonstration
and introduce a framework/ tool to begin mapping out the key
elements and ‘flavour’ of the module/ short course designs. We will
discuss the nature of the resultant representations and explore
possible uses of these.
11.15 – 11.30 Tea and coffee
11.30 – 12.00 Activity: Design review
We will introduce 3 tools which can be used at various points in the
design process to represent, inform and reflect on designs:
o Pedagogical profiler
o Design decision assistant
o Ruin a course checklist
Each team will use these tools to evaluate their designs and inform
their design decision making.
12.00 – 12.40 Activity: Stalls activity
Teams will split in to focus groups. Individuals, with the support of
expert facilitators, will explore one of the following themes:
o Library, media services and accessibility
o Open Educational Resources
o Pedagogy (including assessment)
o Visualisation and representations
Individuals will then rejoin their work teams, share findings and
consider what the impact of these findings might be the emerging
designs. The expert facilitators will be available to offer support for
the remainder of the workshop and will upload links and resources
to Cloudworks as appropriate.
12.40 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Activity: Visualising designs
Using all the online and physical resources available, teams will
draw up a more detailed representation of their module. These
representations are likely to include i.e. sequence, learning
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outcomes, outlines of activities, technologies used, assessment
strategies etc. Using Compendium it is also possible to create links
to specific OERs, tools and resources. Designs and discussions

3. OU Learning Design Initiative
Agenda: Brunel Blened Design Workshop
Two laptops per team will be provided but please also feel free to bring your own if
you would like to.
So that your teams can export the Compendium maps and save any other work done
on workshop laptops, please ensure that you bring at least one USB memory key with
you per team.
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