This document summarizes Dr. Alejandro Armellini's presentation on designing courses for openness. It discusses how the Carpe Diem learning design process has evolved over 3 years to focus on open educational practices and using open resources. Carpe Diem helps educators redesign courses in 2 days to make better use of learning technologies, open resources, and design for participation. The process provides deliverables like course blueprints, storyboards, and action plans. Quality is ensured through a framework that evaluates content, openness, reuse, evidence, and more.
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Designing for openness
1. Designing for openness
Dr Alejandro Armellini
Senior Learning Designer
Beyond Distance Research Alliance
University of Leicester, UK
http://tinyurl.com/bdra-educa2012
www.le.ac.uk
2. Objectives
To illustrate how the Carpe Diem learning design
process has evolved as a result of the OER
agenda over the past 3 years
To show how Carpe Diem has become a platform
for the dissemination of open practices
3. The Beyond Distance Research Alliance…
• Is a Research and Innovation Unit
• Generates evidence that colleagues can relate
to through funded research projects
• Promotes and disseminates evidence-
based, incremental change and embedding
• Shapes and informs policy and strategy
www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance
4. Our mantras
• Research to practice
• Innovation to mainstream
• Low-cost, high-value learning technologies
• Design once, deliver many times
• Design for learning, e-moderate for
participation
…to inform, embed, disseminate and
sustain change
12. Seize the Day
Invest two days of your time
and get your course online
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13. Carpe Diem addresses…
• ‘My use of e-learning is bad.’
• ‘Help me redesign this.’
• ‘The discussion forums are never used.’
• ‘What is a wiki?’
• ‘Can I run synchronous sessions? How?’
• ‘What is Web 2.0 and how can my learners benefit from it?’
• ‘Existing resources? What resources? Are they readily
available? For free? Really?’
Focus: designing for learning
www.le.ac.uk/carpediem
14. Carpe Diem deliverables
• Blueprint for the course
• Storyboard
• Running e-tivities (peer-reviewed and reality-checked)
• Model for further development
• Action plan
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18. Review learning
outcomes & assessment
Storyboard
Gather my materials &
borrow materials from
colleagues
Identify gaps
Download stuff
‘Write’ the rest (often a
lot) to fill gaps
Check consistency,
alignment & go
19. Generate a blueprint
Storyboard
Create a scaffold
Gather materials &
identify gaps
Select and adapt OERs
Design missing bits as per
storyboard
Reality check, review,
adjust & go
20. Resource Audit
Format
Text & Audio Video Slides (eg Other (eg Adobe
Content graphics PowerPoint) Presenter)
What I already
have
What I find and
reuse as is
What I find,
tweak and use
What I find,
repurpose and
use
What I create
for this module
21. High
OER-enhanced curriculum
curriculum
Low-cost, high-
Strategic, embedded
New
value
enhancement
enhancement
curriculum >>
>> Tweaked
Curriculum
design
curriculum
Current
Opportunistic
Timely enhancement
enhancement
>> Tweaked
Used as is OER >> Repurposed
Low High
OER design
22. The CORRE quality and evaluation framework
http://tinyurl.com/otter-corre
23. Taking our materials through CORRE
Stage in CORRE Sample challenges
Content Are the materials usable out of context (e.g. without
seminar input)?
Openness Have I copyright cleared all 3rd party content (e.g.
images) embedded in my materials?
Reuse & Are all authors happy with the CC licence assigned
Repurpose to the new version of the materials?
Evidence Who is your OER primarily aimed at? Future
Leicester students? Academics in other
universities? Others?
Designing for openness Alejandro ArmelliniCarpe Diem is a well-researched and well-rehearsed workshop for academic course teams to design learner-centred online courses together (www.le.ac.uk/carpediem). Based on earlier work by Professor Gilly Salmon, Carpe Diem has been developed, delivered and evaluated by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester over the past 5 years. More than 50 Carpe Diem workshops have been delivered at 16 institutions in the UK and worldwide. The impact and benefits of the approach have been well documented in the literature (Salmon et al, 2008; Armellini and Jones, 2008; Armellini et al, 2009; Armellini and Aiyegbayo, 2010). Carpe Diem shares some features with other interventions, such as Oxford Brookes’ ‘Course Design Intensives’ (Dempster, 2008).The increasingly high profile of open educational resources (OERs) across the sector and the University of Leicester’s participation in three OER projects since 2009 (OTTER, OSTRICH and TIGER) have influenced the design and delivery of Carpe Diem workshops at Leicester and beyond. In particular, the ‘storyboards’ of modules and programmes have seen the incorporation of OERs from multiple sources and in different formats. A resource audit, conducted early on in the design process, helps identify the materials needed for the course and where they can be obtained from as OERs. Course teams’ awareness of the availability of OERs has been raised enormously as a result of this change.Drawing on experiences at Leicester and at other universities in the UK and globally, we show how ‘designing for openness’ informs and enhances Carpe Diem workshops today. By the end of the session, participants will be familiar with this approach to learning design and the pedagogically sound inclusion of OERs in the curriculum. Examples of designs with open resources will be shared and discussed. We will invite reflections on how openness is likely to inform, and perhaps shape, the curricula of the future.
