1. The document discusses the history and current state of open educational resources (OER) in Australia, including a focus on sharing resources nationally in schools, vocational education, and higher education. 2. It describes how learning designs can both provide models for using OERs and demonstrate good practices, potentially making learning designs themselves open educational resources. 3. Several examples of open learning designs and resources are mentioned, including a role-playing simulation of development issues in the Mekong River basin.