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Course Production at the Open University
Jim Ellis
Head of
Interactive
Media
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Agenda• Open University background
• Learning & Teaching Solutions (LTS)
• Course production
• Learning technology
• Learning design
• ‘People’ issues
• The future
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The Open University“Open to people, places, methods and ideas. It promotes educational
opportunity and social justice by providing high quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambition and fulfil their potential.”
• Over 2m students and 325,000 degrees since 1971
• Currently 220,000 students
• 4,500 staff at Milton Keynes + 8,000 Associate Lecturers
• 580 courses, 200 different awards. Most popular (2004):
– Introduction to social science (9,222 students)
– Introduction to the humanities (7,048)
– Understanding health and social care (5,429)
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Learning & Teaching Solutions• LTS works with academic faculties to generate and support course
materials and services
• Course materials production (print, CD, DVD, online, OpenLearn)
• Learning and teaching systems and services (e.g. VLE)
• Intellectual property, co-publishing, set books
• Storage and distribution
• Student computing helpdesk
• Project planning, management, finance, quality, testing, resourcing, outsourcing, recruitment, staff development
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Learning & Teaching Solutions• 500 staff, €40m turnover
• 8 academic faculties:
– Arts - Business school– Education & languages - Health & social care– Maths & computing - Science– Social sciences - Technology
• 9 Account Managers & 23 Project Managers
• Approx 50 editors, 25 programmers, 20 graphics, 30 media assistants, project support, testing, secretarial, etc
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Courseteam
LTSteam
coursemanager
copublishing procurement
sound & vision
rights
software
academic team
media project manager
graphicsediting
course chair
tech testing
media account manager
associate dean
comp servs
library disabilities examsIET student servs
media assist
learning design?
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ProjectManagement
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ProjectManagement
• Clarity – define as much as we can as early as we can
• Consistency – common terms, systems, methods
• Control – of risks through checkpoints and sign-offs
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Technology
How does this impact on “supported open & distance learning”?
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Three major projects• Structured Authoring
• Enterprise Content Management
• Virtual Learning Environment
PRESENTPRODUCEPREPARE
Word
HTML
SCORM
IMS
OU VLESchema
Struct Auth
XMetaL
Web Form
EXE
etc, etc
XSLT
ECMDigital Asset Management
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VLE• OU VLE 1.0 (23 Jan 07) based on Moodle 1.7
• Additional 1.8 functionality and accessibility being added
• Basic course web sites (text, graphics, resource links, course calendar, etc)
• Moodle quiz and OpenMark eAssessment
• Blogs and wikis
• Simple ePortfolio
• Federated search tool
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Open UniversityLearning & Teaching Solutions
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VLE challenges to date• General code base
• Integration with existing OU systems
• Accessibility
• Roles and permissions
• Internal communications
– VLE Developers’ Wiki
– Other LTS developers
– Academics
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OU paradoxes• We want to be consulted
– Everything takes too long
• ‘Leading the learning revolution’
– Move to greater templating & reuse
• Content-light, online, learning objects
– Academics and students like textbooks
• Social constructivism
– Are all students ready to participate in Web 2.0?
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The future?
Student activities and needs&
Learning outcomes
Not technology