The document discusses using an "open design" approach to make better use of open educational resources (OERs) and technologies in learning design. It involves representing learning designs visually using tools like CompendiumLD to make the designs more explicit and shareable. Pedagogical patterns are also proposed as a way to structure designs and distill best practices. The approach was explored in workshops and aimed to help educators more effectively design pedagogically informed learning activities that leverage OERs and technologies.
1. Y. Dimitriadis, P. McAndrew, G. Conole & E. Makriyannis Ascilite 2009, Auckland 7 th December 2009
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5. Learning design Open Educational Resources Pedagogical patterns Formalising design Range of representations Dialogue around designs Free resources Inherent designs Student view Abstracted best practice Solutions to a problem Language as related problems
15. Theoretical perspective: socio-cultural Evidence base (Interviews, surveys, observation, web stats, expert panels, focus groups) Development (Resources, methods, tools, session types, interventions) Trialing (Workshops & conferences, project partners)
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20. Designer OER Design Creates Deposits Deposits Learner A OER Design Learner B Tutor Chooses Uses Quiz + beginners route Uses Quiz + advanced route Repurposes & deposits
21. Process design Prior designs & resources New designs Visualisation (CompendiumLD) Sharing (Cloudworks) Content (OER repositories, etc) Methods (Pedagogical Patterns) New OER & designs
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Editor's Notes
What is Olnet? – open learning network – is a 3 year initiative backed by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. With $3m of funding it is a partnership between the OU and Carnegie Mellon University building on the experience that they have gained in developing and researching Open Educational Resources (OER). The Hewlett foundation that has invested more than $90m in establishing OER wants to find out more about benefits – what is the evidence? How should people learn with them? What issues does the community still need to solve? OLnet will develop a networked community of researchers and practitioners – offering them support, events and a chance to contribute evidence and questions. OER acts as a unifying theme that will generate sub-issues that need to be considered. Projects will carry out different streams of research looking at such things as design, collaborative learning and the developing world. Funded fellowships will bring in external expertise and offer a programme of exchanges and support for research ideas.