Part

Activity name

Activity type(s)

Activity Learning Outcome(s) or Aims

Academic Programme Learning Outcome(s) being addressed by this Activity

Themes covered

5.1

Adapting OER

1. Assimilative

3. Communication

4. Productive

After completing this activity, you will:

● Understand what adaptation is;

● Be aware of tools that can help with OER adaptation;

● Be able to use and apply open licenses to material you have adapted.

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Open Education

5.2

Designing for Online Learners 1: Learner Profiles

1. Assimilative

3. Communication

After completing this activity, you will:

• Have considered the needs of your learners when developing or adapting an OER course

• Reviewed the characteristics of good online learning

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources.

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Learning Design; Open Education

5.3

Designing for Online Learners 2: Learning Outcomes

1. Assimilative

3. Communication

4. Productive

After completing this activity, you will be able to:

● explain what a learning outcome is to a colleague in your university

● write or adapt learning outcomes for an OER course

1.Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students.

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Learning Design;

Open Education

5.4

Professional Development & Knowledge Quiz

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and Handling Information

3. Communication

4. Productive

After completing this activity, you will have:

● reviewed your learning from the first year of involvement in the TIDE project

● reviewed your understanding of Professional Development Frameworks, and documented professional development activities you have undertaken in the previous year.

● made a professional development plan for 2020

1.Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students.

Professional Development

5.5

Training of Trainers & Cascading Knowledge (ToT)

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and Handling Information

3. Communication

4. Productive

5. Experiential

After completing this activity, you will:

1. Understand the purpose of a needs assessment and how to develop one

2. Have identified an area of knowledge in which you are confident, and prepared a training activity that you have tested with colleagues

3. Understand the value of cascading knowledge and identified a range of ways in which this could be done effectively

1.Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students.

Professional Development

5.6

AV Media as an Educational Tool / Using Video in Learning

1. Assimilative

3. Communication

4. Productive

This is an all-day session. After completing this activity, you will:

1. Appreciate the range of possible uses of educational AV

2. Be able to judge the appropriateness of using AV and/or whether a proposed video might be better made as an audio

3. Understand something of the preparation required to make successful AV and therefore to make time available for that

4. Have a basic understanding of the role and needs of the recording technician and director

5. Begin to understand the need to work in a way that brings the best out of the subjects of a video/audio

1. Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students.

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources.

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

Open Technologies; Learning Design

5.7

Putting Your Learning Online

1. Assimilative

3. Communication

4. Productive

7. Assessment

This is an all-day session. After completing this activity, you will be able to:

1. Consolidate learning from previous learning design sessions

2. Upload an adapted OER to OpenLearn Create.

3. Share and give feedback on uploaded OER’s

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Open Education; Learning Design; Professional Development

5.8

Team role identification and sharing or showcasing of skills (RS activity joint)

2. Finding and handling information

3. Communication

4. Productive

6. Interactive

After completing this activity, you will be able to:

1. understand the different roles that people can take when developing OER and how to work more effectively as a team

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources

Professional Development; Open Education

5.9

Review of Phase 2 OER development activity (RS activity joint)

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and handling information

3. Communication

4. Productive

5. Experiential

After completing this activity, you should be able to:

·       Understand better the processes needed to evaluate and adapt an open educational resource for use with your students.

1. Explain the role of quality assurance and enhancement processes for providing a good quality distance learning experience for students

2. Understand what the principles and practices of openness in education means for you and your institution in developing and sharing educational resources

3. Evaluate the learning needs of students to help inform the design of teaching programmes

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Open Education;

Distance Education; Learning Design

5.10

Assessment for Distance Learning I & II (RS activity joint)

1. Assimilative

2. Finding and handling information

3. Communication

After completing this activity, you will be able to:

1. Describe the different purposes of assessment

2. Identify different methods of assessment

3. Explain the role of feedback in assessment

4. Evaluate an assessment

4. Design and develop open educational resources (OER), whether online or in a physical form, that teach and assess learning outcomes

Open Education; Learning Design