The blog Ignatia Webs has a description of an OER workshop that took place at the EDEN 2009 conference. The conference was held in Poland. From the blog post:
So OU UK has been looking at ways to describe design (visual representation is given).
What they do is that the design is explicitely clear for the learners as well.
Because the OER’s design is explicit, you can test it and ask students to enter the design. So students are asked to give their description of a resource, this is coupled back to the other students and this results in a the overall description.
With this explicit design, the teachers are asked to get to work with an explicit design in mind.
