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From Yannis Dimitriadis

Collaborative patterns and design for OER: new approaches to improve the design and reuse of resources

1 Overview
2 Agenda
3 Participants
- 3.1 Workshop facilitators
- 3.2 Workshop attendees (as of June 27)
4 Data from workshop
- 4.1 Recording transcriptions
- 4.2 Additional data
5 Observations, remarks and findings
6 Ascilite paper
7 Chapter for IGI Book

Overview

The workshop will introduce participants to use a range of tools, methods and approaches to designing and evaluating Open Educational Resources (OERs). The session will explore how learning design and pedagogical pattern methodologies can be used to help with the more effective design and reuse of resources. Examples will be taken from existing free and open resources, such as the OERs in available in OpenLearn. Participants will have a chance to try out some of the tools that have been developed as part of OLnet and to discuss relevance and application to their own practice. See also the related OLnet cloudscape and the OULDI cloudscape, which have additional resources. Further information and workshop resources will be made available in Cloudworks.

The workshop will be of interest to those involved in course development or those providing support roles to course teams on the design process and how new approaches and technologies can be incorporated.

You will be using the CompendiumLD software. Please bring your own laptop if you have one, if you haven’t let us know and we will provide workshop machines.

Agenda

9.00 – 9.30 Arrivals, Coffee and croissants (and machine configurations ...)

Preparing

the room, network connections, machine configurations and CompendiumLD installation (if necessary)
and the human network ...

09.30 - 10:45 Session 1: Sharing aims, concepts and practices

09.30 – 10.00: Introduction to workshop and its aims GC

Presentation of the workshop, its aims and vision, as well as the main underlying concepts

[Overview of Open Educational Resources (OER), design patterns and Learning Design (LD), and vision of how these can work together]

Slides Introduction (Grainne, Patrick, Yannis)

10.00 – 10.15 Discussion on the issues and vision PM

What do you think is needed to encourage uptake and reuse of OERs?
What would be particularly useful from an OU perspective?
What are your views on this approach?

10.15-10.30 A small exercise on own resource and/or activity YD

Think of an existing resource or activity that you have created and write down a short representation of its design in one page
Pair with your neighbor and present your resource and design

10.30 – 10.45 Sharing and discussion of own designs YD

Share your designs and thoughts on the exercise with the wider group

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee

Session 2: Reflecting on representations and mediating artifacts

11.00 – 11.05 Review of previous activity YD

Can we discover a design or pattern in the previous activity of thinking, pairing and sharing designs? 11.05 – 11.20 Discussion on the need for more formal representations GC

Focusing on the concrete experiences in Session 1 and being informed by previous experience in the field ...

Is there a value of more formal representations of designs and pedagogical patterns?

11.20 – 11.35 Exercise on the power of visualisation GC

A short visit to a visual represention of an OU course through the H808 CompendiumLD representation

11.35 – 11.45 Discussion on the exercise GC

Views on the representation

11.45 – 11.50 Example of a case of design and reuse GC

Exploration of the Spanish OER design and reuse scenario

that builds on an existing OER at Openlearn

The resulting LD representation in JPEG format

11.50 – 12.05 An Example of creating designs in CompendiumLD AB

Walk through of creating designs in CompendiumLD

12.05 – 12.35 Exercise of generating a Learning Design representation of an existing OER GC

Get an existing OER from OpenLearn (K113)

and try to represent one (out of the first two) extracts in CompendiumLD

12.35 – 12.45 Discussion on LD representations GC

How do the designs compare to those created by Perry Williams ?

Extract 1 LD representation (JPEG format)

Extract 2 LD representation (JPEG format)

Feedback and reflections.

12.45 – 01.30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 Session 3: Putting all together

1.30 – 2.00 Introduction and example of the global vision YD - GC

An introduction to CL, CSCL, CSCL patterns, and some associated tools

through revisiting the Spanish OER design and reuse scenario

that builds on an existing OER at Openlearn

The resulting LD representation in JPEG format

2.00 – 2.45 Trying to implement the vision. A hands-on challenge YD

Each group now revisits one (out of two) extract of K113 and looks at how patterns can be used to make it more collaborative.

The groups now take the design and using

a few CSCL pedagogical patterns

and a couple of CSCL assessment patterns

Also, the main CLFP can be accessed through http://titan.tel.uva.es/wikis/evilfer/index.php?title=Description_of_CLFPs_for_Collage as in the Collage-WebCollage tool

(and probably ...[and the WebCollage ...] )

explore and create a different design, which is more collaborative in nature

A more general pattern book produced during the TELL project can be found in [1]

Coffee will be available during the exercise ....

2.45 – 3.00 Reflecting and discussing on the exercise GC

A discussion is held so that general feedback and reflections are shared (orally only and/or through the Wiki or even the corresponding Cloudscape)

3.00 – 3.30 Continuing the exercise: Explaining the designs YD

One person from each group goes with their design to the next group and explains it. The person from the first design is available to provide further explanation (?)

3.30 – 3.45 And finally sharing designs, feedback and reflection GC

Share new designs and feedback and reflection

3.45 – 3.55 Evaluation of the workshop PM TW

Post-it exercise

3.55 – 4.00 And some wrap-up conclsusions and further plans GC

Conclusion

Participants

Workshop facilitators

Gráinne Conole (IET, Olnet, OULDI)
Yannis Dimitriadis (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Patrick McAndrew (IET, Olnet)
Tina Wilson (IET, OULDI)

and …

Andrew Basher (IET, OULDI)

Workshop attendees (as of June 27)

Teresa Connolly (KMI)
Paul Lefrere (KMI)
Anna DeLiddo (KMI, Olnet)
Gilbert Peffer (U. of Barcelona, XDelia project)
Geri Smith (Library)
Alex Hardman (KMI)
Gill Clough (IET, Xdelia project)
Robin Goodfellow (IET, H800 course team)
Hanbing Yan
Elpida Makriyanni (IET, recent Olnet member)
Juan Ignacio Asensio (University of Valladolid)
Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab
Alex Poulovasilis (KMI ?)
Alejandro Rodriguez-Acaso (UNED, Spain, visiting researcher) - morning session

... and (?)...

Michelle Bachler (KMI, ?)
Gill Smith (?)
Fay Harrison (?)

Data from workshop

This section contains the data that were obtained during the workshop. In each case we present the source and quality of the data, any observations on the data acquisition process, as well as the further processing stages. In separate sections, processed data and research findings are presented, as draft documents.

Recording transcriptions

In this subsection, we include transcriptions of recordings.

The first set of transcriptions refers to 6 extracts from the video-audio recordings, obtained by the standard system of the Ambient Laboratory (8 video channels and 1 audio channel). It is necessary to mention that the quality of sound was rather poor due to fact that audio parameters were set to default the day before the workshop.

After an initial joint view of the complete stream by Elpida and Yannis, it was decided to proceed with the transcription of 6 extracts that mainly collect group dicussions or presentations. The transcription was held by Elpida during the period of July 15 to July 23, 2009.

The following files provide the original transcriptions together with some processing. In this case, we followed a process similar to the one provided by a standard qualitative analysis tool, such as Nud*IST Nvivo, i.e. significant text passages were selected, put in a different colour, so that they could be assigned to the various categories.

Part 1 on Introduction and participant presentations --Yannis 18:39, 20 July 2009 (CEST) and Part 1 on Introduction and participant presentations - processed by Yannis --Yannis 18:39, 20 July 2009 (CEST)
Part 2 on the TPS activity - representung own design --Yannis 18:39, 20 July 2009 (CEST) and Part 2 processed by Yannis --Yannis --Yannis 09:30, 7 August 2009 (CEST)
Part 3 on the CLD representation of the H808 resource --Yannis 18:39, 20 July 2009 (CEST) and Part 3 - processed by Yannis --Yannis 09:30, 7 August 2009 (CEST)
Part 4 on the creation of a CLD representation of the K113 resource --Yannis and Part 4 processed by Yannis --Yannis 09:30, 7 August 2009 (CEST)
Part 5 on the use of design patterns --Yannis 18:39, 20 July 2009 (CEST) and Part 5 processed by Elpida and Yannis --Yannis 13:32, 7 August 2009 (CEST)
Part 6 on the conclusions of the workshop and Part 6 processed by Yannis --Yannis 15:46, 7 August 2009 (CEST)

Additional data

Besides the main video and audio recording, additional data have been taken during the workshop.

Surveys and post-its

The first one refers to the surveys that have been completed by the participants after the end of the workshop, together with anonymous post-its.

Data from surveys and post-its, as compiled by Elpida --Yannis 14:27, 16 July 2009 (CEST)

Cloudscape

The second source of data consists in the Cloudscape that was maintained during the development of the workshop in Cloudworks

Data from the cloudscape of the workshop that includes notes from Grainne --Yannis 14:27, 16 July 2009 (CEST)

Personal notes by Patrick

This file corresponds to some informal notes taken by Patrick during the workshop

Additional notes taken by Patrick during the workshop --Yannis 14:27, 16 July 2009 (CEST)

Photos

The following photos were taken by Patrick focusing mainly on the paper products during the initial phases of the workshop

OLnet Workshop Images taken by Patrick during the workshop - Directly accessed in FLICKR --Emakriya 14:35, 16 July 2009 (CEST)

Specific audio recordings

At specific workshop instances, Tina used an audio recorder and a pink camera in order to capture specific group interactions. The sound quality of the pink camera recording is very poor although some video images can be used to illustrate the process. Some of the audio recordings were transcribed by Elpida and provided below.

Special audio recordings made by Tina --Yannis 12:44, 4 August 2009 (CEST)