The document discusses new approaches to learning and teaching through open design. It outlines paradoxes in technology adoption, why initiatives often fail, and proposes connecting research and practice through an open design approach. This involves making the design process explicit and sharable using tools like learning design schemas, patterns and the Cloudworks platform to support reuse of open educational resources and better pedagogical practices. Case studies from the Open University Learning Design Initiative and Olnet network illustrate this approach.

1. Innovation through design: new approaches to learning &teaching Gráinne Conole, Open University, UK The Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning Cambridge University, 24/09/09 More info, slides and references: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/ cloud/view/2282 http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/ 11190_3_JLB%20PREFERRED%20External %20Image%201000px%20wide.jpg

3. Paradoxes New technologies offer new pedagogical opportunities Potential for reuse with Open Educational Resources Liberating learning beyond formal structures Open Educational Resources Little evidence of reuse Array of technologies Not fully exploited New pedagogies New learning models

5. The solution? Connection… Institutional & national funding Embedding in strategy Aligning to technology trends Changing user behaviour Drivers and challenges Actual use in practice What’s in it for me? Evidence of impact Policy Teacher practice Research & development The learner’s experience

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

8. Realising “open design” Evidence base (interviews, surveys, observation, web stats, expert panels, focus groups) Development (resources, methods, tools, session types, interventions) Trialing (within the OU, workshops & conferences, project partners) Open University Learning Design Initiative & The Olnet network

9. OU Learning Design Initiative Design methods: schema & patterns Tools: Visualisation & guidance Events: Cloudworks: sharing & discussing

10. Olnet: redefining openness

12. Cloudworks: Harnessing web 2.0

13. Key concepts Clouds: Learning & teaching ideas Design or case studies Tools or resources Questions or problems Cloudscapes: Conferences Workshops Course team Student cohort Research theme Project

14. User profile

15. Activity stream

19. Open Design in practice

20. Design, use, reuse 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 Content: (OER repositories, etc) Designs: (Pedagogical Patterns, CompendiumLD designs) New OER & designs

23. Innovation through design: new approaches to learning &teaching Gráinne Conole, Open University, UK The Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning Cambridge University, 24/09/09 More info, slides and references: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/ cloud/view/2282 http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/ 11190_3_JLB%20PREFERRED%20External %20Image%201000px%20wide.jpg