Learning Design for Open Educational Resources | OLnet. Learning design is an approach that considers learning materials as having both a final product, the educational resource, and a design that captures the intent of the product. This design is often implicit and has not been valued as a product in itself. OER challenge that position as it becomes important to communicate why material has been developed so that users can make best use of the material and also see the designs as shareable in themselves.
Designs matter both to educators, to understand potential reuse, and to users to help them select material relevant to their context. Two related aspects are whether representing the design explicitly will help users interpret OER, and whether promoting particular designs (or patterns) will encourage different ways to use OER. Current work in the OU has established use of Compendium (a free knowledge mapping tool from OpenLearn) as a representation tool, and a workshop-based approach to involving the educator and producer community.
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