Rethinking curriculum designOverview of the OU

Learning Design Initiative

Gráinne Conole, The Open University UK

Elluminate seminar22nd October 2008 What else could

tutor be doing?

StudentTasks

Each student selects threecountries

Find and retrieve dataabout these three countries

Post research to group wiki

Wiki

Group nominate person toeliminate multiple entries

and agree dispute process

Forum

Internet

LO – skills:searching of data

and assessingquality of data

DONE: What if theyneed more help?

Library key skills supportpack: internet

LO – skills: how tocollaborate with

others

DONE: Couldnominated personhave greater role?

Tutor reads comments andgives feedback to group

Reflect on tutor feedback

TutorTasks

Each student posts at least onecomment on forum about experience

of achieving learning outcomes

StudentResources

Rest of groupCheck summary and

post comment

Check resource okfor Level 1 students

What methodused to post?

Written / audio etc.

Empirical evidence

Tool development

Trials & workshops

Materials & resources

Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Simon Cross, Juliette Culver, Martin Weller, Perry Williams

New forms of delivery

New forms of creativity

New forms of sharing

Visualisation

Representation

Guidance

Digital tracesDialogue

Workshops Focus

Events & schema CompendiumLD

Cloudworks

Empirical data

Case studies

Workshops

Expert brainstorming

Interviews

Course Design Challenge

Design Lite??

Design Swapshop??

Rethinking design through events and schema to meet a range of needs

Design summitsCloudfests

18th September2008Design challenge:

design a short course in a day are you up to

it???

Amazed at how much we achieved

Stalls really useful

Design lifecycle

VisionVision

GatherGather

EvaluateEvaluate

RunRun

AssembleAssemble

AdaptAdapt

Course conception

Course delivery

Course refinement

Learning activity

Block Course

CompendiumLD

Standard Compendium

icon set

Customised Learning Design

icon set

Main workspace area

Building a designStudentTasks

Each student selects threecountries

Find and retrieve dataabout these three countries

Post research to group wiki

Group nominate person toeliminate multiple entries

Each student posts at least onecomment on forum

Coordinator makeschanges Rest check and

agree

Student gets feedback fromtutor

Assignment

Outcome

Stop

Task

Resource

Tool

Role

Activity List of countries

Internet

StudentResources

Wiki

Forum

DONE: What if theyneed more help?

Paul Clark & Simon Cross

Find & critically assess relevant resources

Time

Scaffolding & support

Recent features

Learning

outcomes

Timings

What else couldtutor be doing?

StudentTasks

Each student selects threecountries

Find and retrieve dataabout these three countries

Post research to group wiki

Wiki

Group nominate person toeliminate multiple entries

and agree dispute process

Forum

Internet

LO – skills:searching of data

and assessingquality of data

DONE: What if theyneed more help?

Library key skills supportpack: internet

LO – skills: how tocollaborate with

others

DONE: Couldnominated personhave greater role?

Tutor reads comments andgives feedback to group

Reflect on tutor feedback

TutorTasks

Each student posts at least onecomment on forum about experience

of achieving learning outcomes

StudentResources

Rest of groupCheck summary and

post comment

Check resource okfor Level 1 students

What methodused to post?

Written / audio etc.

‘Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the

objects that mediate the ties between

peopleEngeström

Design framework for socialityEnabling practiceMimicking realityBuilding identityActualising self

Bouman et al.

CloudworksFind and share designs

Web 2.0 principles: tagging, profiles, user generated

Clouds

Stormclouds

Resourcebank

Tools

People

Clouds

User details

Evolvingnetwork

Dynamic list of inputs

Tagging

But how do you develop the community???

RSS feeds

Follow and be followed

Friends

Embed

Aggregate

Share

Comment

Playlists

APIs

How can we encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs?

Why has there been little uptake of educational repositories?

Can we apply web 2.0 principles to an educational context?

Assessment OERs

CompendiumLD

Issues to address

Event+invites4-8th Nov

Assessment issues in Second Life

Design1

Design2

Peer assessment

criteria

Academic Talk

Web Peer Assessment webparesearch.blogspot.com/

Information literacy webparesearch.blogspot.com/

Import from other

Cloudscapes

Upload bymembers

Easy export

SL Assessment Cloudscape

Brainstorm

Event+invites 15 Jan Course team day workshop

New resources

Flashcards DVDs

Course materials & guidelines

Drill & practice

Course team intranet space

Subject centre for languages

Design2Virtual experts

Design1Upload bymembers Easy export

DesignLite

Requests

OL-NETOL-NETA vision for a participatory A vision for a participatory

network of producers, network of producers, users and researchers of users and researchers of

OERs...OERs...

OL-NET

OER network

People/networks

Tools, methods, approaches

Meta-analysis/synthesis

Designs, evaluations, case studies

Further information•OU Learning design initiative

• http://ouldi.open.ac.uk

• Visualizing design - CompendiumLD

• http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk

• Sharing designs - Cloudworks

• http://cloudworks.open.ac.uk

• Paul Clark - slidecast on using CompendiumLD

• http://www.slideshare.net/PerryW/using-compendiumld-to-design-a-learning-activity-435001/

•OLNet proposal

• http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/OPLRN_proposal

Recent references

• Conole, G., Brasher, A., Cross, S., Weller, M., Clark, P. and White, J. (2008), Visualising learning design to foster and support good practice and creativity, Educational Media International

• Conole, G., Culver, J., Well, M., Williams, P., Cross, S., Clark, P. and Brasher, A. (accepted), Cloudworks: social networking for learning design, Submitted to a forthcoming conference

• Conole, G. (2008), New schema for mapping pedagogies and technologies, Aridne magazine, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/conole/

• Conole, G. (forthcoming), Stepping over the edge: the implications of new technologies for education in M. Lee and C. McLouglin (forthcoming), Web 2.0-based e-learning: applying social informatics for tertiary teaching, Hersey, PA: ICI Global