%0 Book Section %1 conole2010role %A Conole, Gráinne %A McAndrew, Patrick %A Dimitriadis, Yannis %B Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives %C New York %D 2010 %E Pozzi, F. %E Persico, D. %I Hershey %K CSCL OER design designpatterns education learning oldsmooc-w8 patterns pedagogical pedagogicalpatterns %P 206-223 %T The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources %U http://titan.tel.uva.es/wikis/yannis/images/2/2d/Conole_etal_CSCL_chapter_submitted.pdf %X Designing effective CSCL learning processes is a complex task that can be eventually supported by existing good practices formulated as pedagogical patterns. In this sense, patterns such as the Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP) have been successfully implemented in the Collage authoring tool within a pattern-supported design process of new CSCL scripts. From a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) perspective these patterns served as mediating artefacts (MA) that helped practitioners to make informed decisions and choices, being much closer to the practitioners’ mindsets than complex learning design models, such as IMS-LD. However, a new challenge arises when the main starting design element corresponds to Open Educational Resources (OER), i.e. free resources of high quality that are typically employed for individual learning. Recent research reported in this chapter has aimed to analyze the eventual contribution of CSCL patterns such as CLFP in the repurposing process of existing OER for collaborative learning. Preliminary evidence coming from a set of workshops with educational technology experts shows that a small set of patterns drawn from a CSCL pattern language together with other MA, such as visual representations of Learning Designs, may be inspirational and effective in repurposing existing OER. Further research is currently under development that builds on the current successful workshop format and involves practitioners in face-to-face and virtual workshops. This new set of experiences aim to analyze the effectiveness of the pedagogical patterns and other complementary MA, in a large set of practitioners that may exploit the great potential of OER in the framework of the Open Learning Network (OLnet) project funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

@incollection{conole2010role, abstract = {Designing effective CSCL learning processes is a complex task that can be eventually supported by existing good practices formulated as pedagogical patterns. In this sense, patterns such as the Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP) have been successfully implemented in the Collage authoring tool within a pattern-supported design process of new CSCL scripts. From a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) perspective these patterns served as mediating artefacts (MA) that helped practitioners to make informed decisions and choices, being much closer to the practitioners’ mindsets than complex learning design models, such as IMS-LD. However, a new challenge arises when the main starting design element corresponds to Open Educational Resources (OER), i.e. free resources of high quality that are typically employed for individual learning. Recent research reported in this chapter has aimed to analyze the eventual contribution of CSCL patterns such as CLFP in the repurposing process of existing OER for collaborative learning. Preliminary evidence coming from a set of workshops with educational technology experts shows that a small set of patterns drawn from a CSCL pattern language together with other MA, such as visual representations of Learning Designs, may be inspirational and effective in repurposing existing OER. Further research is currently under development that builds on the current successful workshop format and involves practitioners in face-to-face and virtual workshops. This new set of experiences aim to analyze the effectiveness of the pedagogical patterns and other complementary MA, in a large set of practitioners that may exploit the great potential of OER in the framework of the Open Learning Network (OLnet) project funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.}, added-at = {2010-08-04T11:13:00.000+0200}, address = {New York}, author = {Conole, Gráinne and McAndrew, Patrick and Dimitriadis, Yannis}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26607171b13f97bad1b970104ba0ed444/yish}, booktitle = {Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives}, editor = {Pozzi, F. and Persico, D.}, interhash = {b7b0da4424170a059ce728217f46fa97}, intrahash = {6607171b13f97bad1b970104ba0ed444}, keywords = {CSCL OER design designpatterns education learning oldsmooc-w8 patterns pedagogical pedagogicalpatterns}, pages = {206-223}, publisher = {Hershey}, timestamp = {2015-03-22T14:13:25.000+0100}, title = {The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources}, url = {http://titan.tel.uva.es/wikis/yannis/images/2/2d/Conole_etal_CSCL_chapter_submitted.pdf}, year = 2010 }