Open University Learning Design Initiative

We had a very productive meeting with Rebecca Galley from the OU on Thursday 26th of May. The discussions were focussed around two main areas: to brainstorm ideas on the content that would be relevant to include in the final OULDI project report, and to review the draft copies of the three case study . . . → Read More: OULDI @ Brunel project meeting

Alongside the JISC funded learning design project I am also contributing to an EU funded project called ‘Design Practice’. It is a Leonardo transfer of innovation project with a focus on developing educators’ learning design skills.

Usable Representations of Learning Design

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Our role has been to develop . . . → Read More: Design Practice Learning Design Training Module

The Brunel OULDI project team is pleased to announce the launching of its own project website entitled OULDI @ Brunel

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/apdu/researchprojects/ouldi

The website has been set up to provide up to date information about our project activities thus far.  As can be seen from the image below, the website has five menu . . . → Read More: Launch of the OULDI @ Brunel website

I was asked to put together a poster for the OU LearnAbout Fair explaining how a OU learning design approach might support teams looking at designing a module which develops digital literacy skills. For interest here it is:

Next-Generation Stage-Gating

As discussed in the last post, Simon Cross and I have been beginning to sketch out an alternative curriculum design process model based on findings from both the OULDI project and our colleagues in other JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery programmes (particularly the curriculum design Cluster B folk: Predict project from City University, T-SPARC . . . → Read More: Thoughts on embedded learning design processes.

We have just finished analysing the data and writing up a summary report from a learning design focus group we held here at the OU towards the end of January. The focus group provided an opportunity for some of those using learning design approaches across the university to share their perceptions of what the . . . → Read More: Learning design focus group

Thank you to Ruth Brown for hosting our project partners meeting at London South Bank this month. The next meeting is scheduled in June and will be hosted by Amyas at Cambridge. The picture is of us all squeezing into the lift on our way to lunch!

The meeting began with an update on . . . → Read More: OULDI-JISC Partner meeting

The Cluster C projects (OULDI, ViewPoints from University of Ulster and PiP from Strathclyde) were invited yesterday to Cluster B’s CAMEL meeting to share the tools and resources that we have been developing. Cluster B includes the Predict project from City University, T-SPARC at Birmingham City University, UG-flex at the University of Greenwich, PALET . . . → Read More: Further reflections on Cluster B questions