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From Design to Open Practice

Over seven lessons, you have taken the training design you built in Part 1 and turned it into something that can travel further than you can alone.

You started by rethinking your materials through the lens of openness — examining what it takes for resources to work without you in the room. You found and evaluated existing OER, learned to read licenses and understand what they allow, and adapted resources for your context. Where nothing suitable existed, you created new materials designed from the start for reuse. You prepared everything for sharing — with documentation, licensing, accessible formats, and platform choices that support discovery. And you made realistic plans for sustaining and improving your materials over time.

What you have now is not a static set of files. It is a set of materials with clear purpose, documented assumptions, and explicit permissions — materials that other facilitators can find, understand, adapt, and use. Each piece connects to your training design from Part 1, and each was shaped by the realities of your context and your learners.

That is a significant contribution to open educational practice.

Review your complete workflow

Before moving on, take 20–30 minutes to review your full Activity 14: OER Workflow. You have been building this across all seven lessons. Now step back and look at the whole:

  • Context (Section 0): Is your description of the material, its purpose, and its audience still accurate?
  • Evaluation (Section 1): Do your resource evaluations reflect what you now know about licensing, adaptation, and accessibility?
  • Design decisions (Section 2): Are your reuse/adapt/create decisions documented clearly enough that someone else could understand your reasoning?
  • Adaptation log (Section 3): Is your record of changes and their rationale complete?
  • Sharing plan (Section 4): Is your documentation, licensing, and platform choice finalised?
  • Sustainability plan (Section 5): Is your feedback and maintenance approach realistic?

Update anything that has shifted as your understanding deepened through the lessons. The workflow is a living document — it should reflect where you are now, not where you started.

What comes next

You have a training design and a set of open materials. You may also have questions that go beyond what Part 2 covered — about facilitation and delivery, about evaluating impact, or about how to handle specific challenges in your context.

The Extra Topics section addresses some of these. It covers facilitation, delivery, and session structure — the practical side of running the training you have designed. It also covers evaluation for impact — how to assess whether your training is making the difference you intended.

The materials you have created are not finished. They will improve through use, through feedback, and through the contributions of others who adapt them for contexts you may never see. That is the point of open practice — not perfection, but progress that compounds.