1. Serendipity and fun as ingredients for transforming practice Gráinne Conole, Open University, UK Learning Design Conference, Vancouver Simon FraserUniversity, 21/10/09 More info, slides and references: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/ http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/ 11190_3_JLB%20PREFERRED%20External %20Image%201000px%20wide.jpg

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 Characteristics of good pedagogy Personalised Situative Social Experiential Reflective Affordances of new technologies Adaptive Contextual Networked Immersive Collective “ Open Design” Explicit Shareable Cross boundaries Collective Cummulative

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

15. Open Design: Visualising and sharing

16. Explicit design

17. 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

18. Process design Prior designs & resources New designs Content: (OER repositories, etc) Designs: (Pedagogical Patterns, CompendiumLD designs) New OER & designs

19. Open design: Social and collective

20. Key concepts: Clouds Clouds: Ideas Design or case studies Tools or resources Questions or problems

22. Key concepts: Cloudscapes Cloudscapes: Conferences Workshops Course team Student cohort Research theme Project

24. Key concepts: Activity streams Clouds Cloudscapes Comments Links References Extra content

26. Theoretical perspectives “ Social objects” Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people Engeström Design framework for sociality Enabling practice Mimicking reality Building identity Actualising self Bouman et al .