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From Design to Open Practice

Over seven lessons, you have taken the training design you built in Part 1 and extended it into something that can move, adapt, and be used beyond your immediate delivery.

You began by looking at your materials through the lens of openness — what it takes for them to work without you in the room. You then worked through the full set of decisions that shape how materials are developed in practice: finding and evaluating existing resources, understanding what licenses allow, adapting materials to your context, creating where needed, and preparing everything for sharing. You also considered what it takes to maintain and improve materials over time.

What you have now is not a static set of files. It is a structured set of materials with clear purpose, visible assumptions, and explicit permissions — materials that others can find, understand, adapt, and use. Each part connects back to your training design from Part 1 and reflects the realities of your learners and context.

This is what open educational practice looks like in practice: not a single act of sharing, but a way of working with materials over time.

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 1): Is your description of the material, its purpose, and its audience still accurate?
  • Evaluation (Section 2): Do your resource evaluations reflect what you now know about licensing, adaptation, and accessibility?
  • Design decisions (Section 3): Are your reuse/adapt/create decisions documented clearly enough that someone else could understand your reasoning?
  • Adaptation log (Section 4): Is your record of changes and their rationale complete?
  • Sharing plan (Section 5): Is your documentation, licensing, and platform choice finalised?
  • Sustainability plan (Section 6): Is your feedback and maintenance approach realistic?

Update anything that has shifted as your understanding deepened. The workflow should reflect where you are now — not where you started.

What comes next

You now have a training design and a set of materials that can be reused, adapted, and shared. From here, the work continues through use.

As you run your training: - you will notice where materials work well and where they need adjustment
- you will encounter constraints you did not anticipate
- you will refine your approach based on feedback and experience

That is part of the process.

The Additional Topics section builds on this by focusing on facilitation, delivery, and evaluation for impact — the practical realities of running the training you have designed.

Your materials are not finished, and they do not need to be.

They will improve through use, through feedback, and through adaptation — by you and by others working in contexts you may never see. That is the value of working openly: not perfection, but materials that can continue to evolve and be built on over time.