The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the OLnet initiative for supporting OER design. It provides an overview of OER and principles of open design. The OLnet tools aim to make the design of OERs more explicit, shareable, and collaborative. Workshop participants used CompendiumLD software to visually represent and redesign the pedagogical design of a Spanish OER to make it more collaborative. The goal is to build capacity for OER reuse through representation, discussion, and refinement of design issues.

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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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)

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. Think of a resource you have created Describe its inherent design Share with the person next to you Share with the wider group

12. 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

13. Swim lines: roles + tasks, resources + tools

14. Network Research Fellowships From producing open resources to use of open resources Build capacity Find evidence Refine the issues

16. OLnet Sharing Researching Discussing Representing

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 Clouds in Cloudworks Pedagogical Patterns OER repositories New OER & designs

22. 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

24. 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

25. 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. OpenLearn: McAndrew, P. and Santos, A. (2008), Learning from OpenLearn Research Report 2006-2008, Open University: Milton Keynes

26. OER, patters and learning design http://e4innovation.com/?p=324 Curriculum representation http://e4innovation.com/?p=312 Pedagogy schema http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/conole/

27. Olnet http://olnet.org OULDI http://ouldi.open.ac.uk Cloudworks http://cloudworks.ac.uk CompendiumLD http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk