OpenLearn Create: - overview - creating resources

and courses

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OpenLearn Create• Existing OER platform hosted

by the OU – sister platform to OpenLearn

• Free public space for people to run their own open learning projects or share OER – both OU projects and external and partnership projects

• Redesigned and developed for improved navigation and usability.

• Further redesign and functionality improvement work ongoing

• Can host collections of courses

www.open.edu/openlearncreate

OpenLearn Create – creating open courses

Embedded or linked video

Statement of Participation

Textual contentimages

Quizzes Open Badges

Forums

Interactive glossaries

Blogs

Polls

Feedback and

evaluation

Choice of Creative

Commons licences

User stats and data dashboard for reports

and analyticsRemixing and re-versioning

content

OER search

Peer assessment

Exportable and accessible

formats

Multiple languages

RSS/XML feeds

User profile (creator and

learner)

Free courses on OpenLearn Create

New taxonomies – filter system on Free courses page

Finding a course on social care, workforce development, level 0 or 1

Collections of courses

A collection of courses

www.open.edu/openlearncreate/OU-in-Scotland

A collection of courses

http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/OEPS

Search

Google custom search of the site content.Also a Google custom search for other OER sites so that course creators can find other OER they might reuse or remix into their course.

OpenLearn, OLC and FutureLearn

• If OU originated content (even if co-production) then goes on OpenLearn.• If content partly OU and partly other organisations or if only by other

organisations then goes on OpenLearn Create. Or could go to FutureLearn if organisation is a paying member (must be monetising element).

• On OpenLearn Create course can have your own badging assessment strategy, not bound by OU BOC rules, can have OU name but cannot have OU logo on badge.

• OpenLearn Create can host perpetually open or time bound courses, FutureLearn only hosts time bound courses.

Functionality comparison

Feature OpenLearn OpenLearn Create FutureLearnPerpetually open courses Yes Yes NoTime bound courses No Yes Yes (only)Closed cohorts Yes Yes YesPayments on site No (coming soon) No (planned) YesDigital badges Yes Yes NoStatement of Participation Yes Yes Yes (charge/no

charge)Anyone can publish on it No Yes Yes (if a FL

member)Courses openly licenced Yes Yes, mostly Not necessarilyHost a branded portal (e.g. like OLCymru)

No Yes No

Software Drupal and Moodle Moodle Ruby on RailsSupports OU structuredcontent (OU XML)

Yes Yes No

What is on offer now on OLC?

• DIY basic course (no charge, you take as long as you like to build using Moodle only functionality)

• Course built for you by OMIL* (e.g. 24 hour BOC type course costs £27k plus overheads, time to build and test can be quick if content ready and not complex, shorter courses cheaper than this)

• Open or closed cohorts• Badged courses (optional)• Statement of Participation (optional)

• Collections of courses (DIY no charge or OMIL build for you - quick build - cost £3k per collection which includes ongoing service charge for platform software maintenance. Course production is separate cost)

• Portal site for courses own header, footer and navigation but using site taxonomies and functionality (design costs plus £40k or more to build, depending on complexity, 3 to 6 months to build)

* OMIL Open Media and Informal Learning, Learning & Teaching Innovation, OU

New OpenLearn Create design

• Site redesigned, site not yet mobile responsive (planned).• Free courses page has filters using new site taxonomy system. • New dedicated search page.• Get started (for course creators) with course builder guide• Course pages redesigned to accommodate both Moodle only and

Moodle with XML (OU structured content) courses.• Course creators can set up collections of their own courses or can

ask us to set them up on their behalf.• Article functionality allows users to create a standalone article in

Moodle which the system recognises as an article not a course.• Improved Statement of Participation to include learning outcomes

and course overview.• Moodle Stats and data dashboard for Moodle reports of course data.

New Article feature● The article feature

enables content to be published which has a distinct ‘article’ rather than ‘course’ layout.

● Articles are identified as ‘articles’ rather than ‘courses’ on the site

● Articles can have more than one author listed, with a lead author

● An article is a single page layout of text (with images and embedded video optional)

● An article can go in a collection with courses and other articles

Coming very soon

• Materials functionality allows users to create a standalone set of materials in Moodle which the system recognises as materials not a course (enrolment optional).

• Handbook functionality allows users to create a standalone handbook in Moodle which the system recognises as an handbook not a course (no enrolment available).

• Guide functionality allows users to create a standalone Guide in Moodle which the system recognises as an guide not a course (no enrolment available).

• GDPR improvements to the existing profile.• Open Government Licence to be added to the list of licences on site.• Competitions functionality coming later this year

Get started: Create a course

Get started: Create a course

Create a course

Create a course metadata

The create a course form has been updated to include subject and skill taxonomies, as well as provider, level, licence chooser, study hours, teaching language and course collection (default is OER).The course enrol button can be hidden if it is an OER which doesn’t require enrolment

Moodle resources and activities

QuizzesAssessed Moodle quizzes

Other features

Course home page

OU structured content course with completion tracking, badge and Statement of Participation

Create a collection

What do learners want … recognition

• No barriers• Give low cost

(to produce) recognition. ‘Certificates’ and badges currently only available for free (no other templates as payment mechanism not yet available in system).

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Badged courses on OpenLearn Create

OU XML coursesAs part of the service the OU offers we can build courses using XML – eXtensible Markup Language. XML content provides the following:• clear navigational links between pages of materials (next, back) • hide/reveal activities • unmarked formative quizzes • interactive learning activities of various kinds (simple and

complex)• embedding video/audio files

We render the marked up XML content to a course and this generates additional alternative formats of course materials from the same file for learners to download and study offline (e.g. Word, PDF, eBook versions). These alternative versions do not synchronise with the tracking system for the online materials, so learners need to return to online materials for their progress through materials to be recorded.

OU XML coursesA typical activity in an OU Structured content course

OU XML coursesVideo and audio activities

OU XML coursesSimple interactivity – matching exercise

OU XML coursesSimple interactivity – click to reveal

OU XML coursesComplex interactivity

OU XML QuizzesUnmarked formative quizzes

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

• Manage your courses area for course providers includes links to data reports for their courses

• The stats & data dashboard includes some newly built reports, some existing reports and a link to the other Moodle reports which have not yet been displayed in the new design layout

• If the course provider has collections and sites they will also be able to access data reports for these from the same dashboard (currently only OLCymru and OLC have site reports as OLCymru is the only portal hosted by OLC)

Manage courses page, showing links to data reports for each course

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

Stats and Data dashboard for a specific course, showing the list of reports available (more reports in the Moodle report menu)

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

Stats and Data dashboard for a specific course, showing the Number of course views report (the data can filtered to a specific date range and can be downloaded). Please note that as new fields had to be set up (this is a new report), the figures shown are actually from the date of the code release in September rather than the original publication date, so the number of course views since publication will actually be much higher.

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

Stats and Data dashboard for a specific collection, showing the list of courses in the collection and direct links to their data reports

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

Stats and Data dashboard for sites the person manages (at present only have OLCymruportal and OLCreate)

Stats & Data dashboard for Moodle reports

Open Media and Informal Learning

www.open.edu/openlearnwww.open.edu/openlearncreate