JISC-OULDI is a JISC-funded project supported by the Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design programme.  The project is led by The Open University. 

Our Project

Our aim is to develop and implement a methodology for learning design composed of tools, practice and other innovation that both builds upon, and contributes to, existing academic and practioner research. Tools produced include CompendiumLD, which is a visualisation tool for design and Cloudworks, a social networking site for sharing and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. The work is underpinned by an ongoing programme of empirical work, aimed at getting a richer understanding of educational design processes. Data collected includes interviews, surveys, observations, web statistics, focus groups, as well as gathering data at workshops and other events we run. The empirical data informs the three main strands of our work: representing pedagogy, informing the design process and facilitating the sharing and discussing of designs. The team are based in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University.

The OULDI project focuses on three aspects of design

1.  Collaboration & dialogue – mechanisms to encourage the sharing and discussing of learning and teaching ideas.

2.  Representation – identification of different types of design representation and use of a range of tools to help visualise and represent designs.

3.  Theoretical perspectives – the development of a body of empirical research and conceptual tools to help guide the design decision-making process and to provide a shared language to enable comparisons to be made between different designs.

Click below for a list of Project reports, publications and presentations

Project reports

Conference papers

Journal articles

Our Dissemination

Project blog/website

JISC Online Conference 2011: 

What needs to change in curriculum design?

Identifying and changing key curriculum design practices

Our Outputs

Cloudworks   

CloudEngine

Compendium LD and compendium questionnaire

Our Cluster

We are working in a cluster with 2 other projects involved in the Curriculum Design programme. The focus of the cluster is around learning design approaches and methodologies in curriculum design.  The cluster is working collectively on developing ideas for different types of representation that might be used to describe design at the curriculum level including a ‘production to presentation’ timeline, workload and costing matrices and process flow maps.

University of Stathclyde - Principles in Patterns (PiP) project

University of Ulster - Viewpoints project