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1. Designs Mediating Artifacts in the Design Subcycle WC Patterns and PLs CLD Cohere CW OERs (Openlearn o federation of repositories) OER • Tools, resources and other mediating artifacts to be used at the design • subcycle of the OER cycle • CompendiumLD (CLD): Provides visual representations of designs • WebCollage (WC): Provides visual, partially textual • and interpretable representations of learning and assessment activities • by an IMS-LD player. It is informed by patterns, especially for CSCL • Other mediating artefacts, such as • patterns (in textual form independently or as part of assistants or as • incomplete templates) • templates, stencils, skeletons (such as those used in CLD and in the existing • and upcoming proposals by Sue Bennett) • taxonomies (like the one proposed in DialogPlus and used in • terms of keywords at CLD) • ontologies (such as Ontoolcole used in the Ontoolsearch tool)

2. Reflections and plans after 4 weeks (using PP!) Yannis Dimitriadis, IET-OU, May 20, 2009

3. The structure of the rest … • A few ideas for discussion … • A set of concrete steps …

4. Designs Mediating Artifacts in the Design Subcycle (II) WC Patterns and PLs CLD Cohere CW OERs (Openlearn o federation of repositories) OER • … cont. • Internal designs of the resources • Schemata about the related pedagogies • Design and experiential comments by the community, knowledge maps, ideas … It is important to know when and how each mediating artifact will be included at the design subcycle. For example, during the creation of the resource or in a re-engineering phase, as done with the OU resources converted for OpenLearn or as part of the reuse subcycle, as in LabSpace of Openlearn It is also interesting to know how these artefacts can be combined, whether they should be “interpretable by players or integrable at LMSs, and their adherence to specifications (IMS LD, CC, LOM, etc.)

5. CoP Scope and object of the CoP? Boundary objects of different CoP? Persistent or temporary? On ideas or on OERs, designs, patterns? Sharing through CoP using services and tools • Services: • twitter, RSS, tags, ratings, blogs, comments: • Which are essential? • How can they be updated in a seamless, • sustainable, personalized way? • Probably through (widgets, mashups) • 4. Why are so many tweets and so few comments? CW Cohere Examples of CoP Communities (CoP?): Course teams (SL201), Faculty (FELS, MBA), Univ …, Sector (CS, ), Interest (CSCL, AT, patterns) Conference (CALRG) Researchers and practitioners (OER)

6. Proposals for concrete steps (I) • There are several steps that could be undetaken directly by Yannis or/and with collaboration with other Olnet/IET/KMI persons • Draw more elaborate diagrams (model?) relating Mediating Artifacts (MA), underlying concepts and the OER cycle, as a step towards a more theoretical understanding (Activity Theory-AT, Participatory Design-PD, Communities of Practice-CoP) • Use Compendium (or CLD), Cohere to represent the knowledge maps (?) • Draw dynamic (sequence…) diagrams that may show different uses of the MAs within the OER cycle, e.g. if a pattern is used for the creation of a new resource together with the associated tools, learning design

7. Proposals for concrete steps (II) • Check what could be a starting point (the definition of a resource, of a learning goal, of an actvity) and the abstraction level (jigsaw or specific resource in introductory computing) in the design subcycle • One good initial test is to get some existing resources and work with them through e.g. re-engineering (embed or extract a design) or creation of new ones, and then use them (and the associated Mas) in a limited OER cycle

8. Proposals for concrete steps (III) • Analyze these processes in a CSCL context, and probably using the CSCL-related patterns, tools, etc., since this is an interesting field, new for several practitioners but familiar to Yannis and the Gsic group. • Prepare the June 30 WS (with users?), another smaller one with experts (when?), the off-site days of July 1-2 • Define scope (objective, participants), resources and tools to be used, evaluation techniques-tools-resources, i.e. a research design as a learning design, probably using the same tools (CLD, Cohere) • Discuss all related aspects in a CW cloud within a cloudscape related to this specific thread of yannis’ stay • Some ideas point to course teams in a sector that may analyze the use of collaborative techniques in their courses, thus being able to use the CL patterns, WebCollage, Ontoolsearch, etc. and the specific expertise • Relate and include the work done at LKL on patterns

9. Proposals for concrete steps (IV) • Find a decoupled way to use all mediating artefacts without the need for a hard integration • Relate, understand, expand at a theoretical and practical level the taxonomy (DialogPlus) and the ontology (Ontoolsearch). See how they can be efficiently used with the rest of tools • Define the publication forae and set the target for joint publication(s) of this work – journals, general conferences, books or even WS organized by Olnet • Analyze the ways the work of Olnet may influence the work in Spain, Valladolid, Gsic, etc. in a sustainable form

10. Proposals for concrete steps (V) • Relate the previous work at OpenLearn (analyze final report) and OU-LDI with the present Olnet-related research work • How to organize and connect more effectively the OU (normally busy ) with the visiting professor (typically with free time )?