The UKOU Learning Design & Course Creation Workshop: Pedagogy and Impact

Olney, Tom; Chang, Daphne and Lin, Lin (2022). The UKOU Learning Design & Course Creation Workshop: Pedagogy and Impact. In: 35th Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) Annual Conference 2022, 2-4 Nov 2022, Jeju, South Korea, pp. 160–164.

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Abstract

The Open University, UK (UKOU) has a long relationship with the Chinese Open University sector. Since 2014 this relationship has included staff from the UKOU facilitating the Learning Design & Course Creation (LDCC) Workshop as a human resource development activity for the design of online and distance learning (ODL). The LDCC Workshop has been delivered in both face-to-face and online distance settings. By November 2022 around 850 Chinese staff, from at least eight different institutions, will have participated in 33 instances of the LDCC Workshop. The LDCC Workshop model aims to align UKOU learning design frameworks and practices with constructivist and student-focused pedagogies. Through a series of structured, collaborative activities it challenges participants to design an ODL course of their own in a compressed timeframe and offers opportunities for a re-examination of their own design practices. This model has been adopted to maximise support for, and manage changes to, the professional teaching identities of participants who may be required to adapt from designing traditional education to ODL. Previous evidence of the impact of the LDCC Workshop has been consistently gathered by the facilitators and fed back into further developments and publications. This presentation will describe in detail the rationale, model and strategies adopted by the LDCC Workshop and report on the unpublished findings of some in-depth impact interviews with past participants which were conducted in 2022.

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