Collaborative Approaches to Learning Design
John Casey, University of the Arts London
This presentation reported the experience of the ALTO UK project in devising a simple effective methodology and media format to help busy front-line art and design teachers engage with creating, sharing and using open educational resources. Inspired by the example of the Open Textbook movement in the USA, Africa and elsewhere as well as the experience of the OpenCourseWare movement created by M...
Abstract
This presentation reported the experience of the ALTO UK project in devising a simple effective methodology and media format to help busy front-line art and design teachers engage with creating, sharing and using open educational resources. Inspired by the example of the Open Textbook movement in the USA, Africa and elsewhere as well as the experience of the OpenCourseWare movement created by MIT, the project has joined these techniques to create ‘Open Course Books’. Traditional learning resources such as lecture notes, etc. can be scarce in these subject areas, with the result that there can be ‘gaps’ when trying to create OERs along the lines pioneered by OpenCourseware at MIT and OpenLearn at the OU. This open course book is our response to these challenges, it gives us a relatively easy way to create and share representations of our courses for people outside our institutions.
Biography
John Casey is the project manager of the ALTO UK JISC OER Phase 3 project (http://alto.arts.ac.uk) based at the University of the Arts London. This is notable in being a partnership between the public and private sector that includes universities, technical colleges, publishers and IT companies. The vision of the project partners is to develop a service to support a sustainable ADM OER community in the UK that is engaged in the co-design, development and sharing of OERs. To support this, the project is developing a technical infrastructure for a national online/offline community of art, design and media teachers and students. Previously, John was project manager for the Jorum project (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/) where he was instrumental in guiding Jorum to becoming an open repository service and in the adoption of Creative Commons Licences. John has experience in the legal issues and staff development aspects of e-learning and has researched and published on these subjects.
