Open Pattern Tool for Higher Education Research and Practice (OPTion)
The infrastructure developed in OPTion is currently being utilised in the "StoryPool" project.
Learning arrangements in higher education that lead to good teaching practice can be documented as didactic patterns, the dissemination and utilisation of which can contribute to improving the quality of teaching. These patterns can be helpful for other teachers, but are still too rarely shared. Existing descriptions of solution arrangements for university teaching also vary greatly.
With PatternPool, the OPTion project has developed a platform on which tried-and-tested solution arrangements for university teaching can be described, collected and shared in a structured manner.
To this end, a technical tool was (further) developed in the sense of an open access infrastructure based on Wordpress, which enables the collection, organisation and analysis of didactic solution arrangements using the pattern approach:
The Open Pattern Tool for Higher Education Research and Practice (OPTion).
In collaboration with the Emden-Leer University of Applied Sciences, the potential of digitalisation for open access is used to utilise the resulting patterns both practically and (interlinked with this) scientifically, thereby contributing to the improvement of teaching quality and higher education didactic research.
Open content and open research are linked with the tool in such a way that the acceptance problems that still exist in this area are reduced: namely obstacles in the reception as well as those in the (collaborative) production of the structured description of teaching-learning arrangements. Piloting the tool in German-speaking countries (with the option and as preparation for international expansion) was the core of the project.
The pattern approach from architecture (cf. Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King & Angel, 1977) is a tried and tested strategy for capturing the regularity of solution arrangements and presenting them in such a way that it becomes clear to the recipient or future "user" for which problems and under which contextual conditions they can be used in principle.
| Sponsorship |
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the funding line Open Access for Science, funding reference 16OA022A |
| Duration | March 2018 until April 2020 |
| Staff members | Dr. Eileen Lübcke (Koordination), Mareike Bartels |
| Keywords | Didaktische Entwurfsmuster, Design Patterns, didaktische Taxonomie, Open Access |
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