Curriculum design for open education/Course overview

Course overview

The matrix structure of this pilot micro course is set out below. The six learning pathways reflect key curriculum design topics and are named in the column headings. Each learning pathway consists of a number of activities that you can complete in full, or selectively based on your prior knowledge, experience and needs. Column one lists the five foundational open educational practice (OEP) concepts introduced in the first learning pathway. The sub-topics on which the learning activities are based are identified at relevant intersections of the two. While the course is supported by the facilitators over the five week duration, we recognise that learners will engage in different ways and at different times. We estimate full completion of the micro course will require at least 20hrs, with the second major task due one week after the end of Week 5.

Introduction	Learning outcome frameworks	Learner contexts	Design for learning in open education	Resources and technologies	Assessment and OEP
Openness and open educational practices (OEP)	Socially networked learners, formal and informal learning, digital literacies	Connectivism, rhizomatic learning, transformative pedagogy	Open design, sequence or sample, facilitated or self-directed, self-paced	The OER movement, ‘native’ and open source technologies	Open education and assessment
Open learning pedagogies		Qualification frameworks, nested learning outcomes e.g. course/program, unit/subject, module	Learner-led pathways, curating OER	Authentic activities, abundant content, resources and tools	Emerging assessment strategies
Locating open educational resources (OER)			Evaluating, integrating and adapting resources	Search strategies, repositories, licences
Creating OER			Co-creating OER via learning activities	Reuse, reworking, remixing, redistributing
Gaining credit for learning	Accrediting learners		Credit and non-credit options		Prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR), challenge-for-credit