Open University Learning Design Initiative

Over the last month, we’ve been working on finishing our final Evaluation and Project reports. In pulling together research and experience from all five project strands and nine pilots we’ve been able to collate findings and think about what we have achieved, what we have discovered and what this means.

The . . . → Read More: OULDI Project Report and Evaluation Report

Vilinda Ross (from Ulster’s Viewpoints project) and I presented at this year’s HEA conferenece and had an excellent turn-out (thanks to everyone that came along!)  I only had a very quick 10 minutes to update the conference on the OULDI-JISC project, so thought I’d upload my slides here. All the reports, tools and resources . . . → Read More: HEA conference 2012: The Art of the Designer

I’ve just had my first paper as lead author accepted by the Interactive Learning Environments journal (written in collaboration with Grainne Conole and Giota Alevizou) – a nice end to the week! I’ve added an image of the indicators below and you can read more about it’s development in a Cloudworks blog here: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/news/view/1474

. . . → Read More: Community Indicators: A framework for observing and supporting community activity on Cloudworks

The 7Cs of design and delivery . . . → Read More: 7Cs Design and Delivery

It has been argued that processes of participatory culture, afforded by social media and technologies blur the boundaries between creative production and consumption, and open up novel, public spaces for, and styles of, networked learning; social spaces that promote collaborative knowledge building, and shared assets. However, empirical evidence on the application of such technologies . . . → Read More: Collectivity, Performance and Self-representation: Analysing Cloudworks as a Public Space for Networked Learning and Reflection

I’m leading a workshop tomorrow at the JISC Experts Meeting in Birmingham. I’ll be sharing the key principles of the OULDI methodology and some of the tools and activities, but more particularly I’ll be inviting participants to begin to develop and share their own Curriculum Design activities, using best practice frameworks and collaboration methods . . . → Read More: Workshop at JISC Experts Meeting, Maple House, Birmingham

Natalie Parnis, Dr Phil Alberts (Brunel University) and Maria Papefthimiou (Reading University) delivered a collaborative presentation during this year’s Alt C Conference in September.  The presentation entitled Curriculum Design: An approach for successfully embedding Technology Enhanced Learning in the curriculum provided the audience with an account of the commonalities and variances of the learning . . . → Read More: Brunel and Reading Universities present at the Alt C 2011

We have been invited to talk about Cloudworks and more specifically Cloudworks as open source which we’ve called ‘CloudEngine’ by JISC as part of their Elluminate Wednedsday sessions. The presentation is embedded below (and available to download from Slideshare).

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Link . . . → Read More: JISC Elluminate Wednesday Session

JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery blog post

Phil Alberts and Natalie Parnis participated in a presentation at the 6th International Blended Learning Conference which took place at the University of Hertfordshire on the 15th & 16th of June 2011.  

The presentation entitled ‘Designing the Curriculum: from innovation to enhancement’ was delivered in collaboration with Rebecca Galley from the OU and Maria . . . → Read More: Presentation at the 6th International Blended Learning Conference