Digital pre-texts and the creation of ‘open’ learning resources

The majority of published learning resources and textbooks are to some degree ‘complete’ in the selection, arrangement and publication of their content and realized in a final published form. While open to interpretation and various means of implementation and enactment, there are limitations to the degree that they may be rewritten in each learning context. In a digital age, processes that involve adaptation, co-configuration, co-construction and creation are required to ensure learning is relevant, meaningful and extend students creative capacities. There are various models that promote these processes. This paper explores the creation of digital pre-texts as ‘open’ texts, which may be used as the framework for co-constructing learning experiences and locally relevant and responses resources. It also looks at an integrating model known as ‘Rolling Role’ one drawn from the drama education field which provides for open but structured activity fields for resource development and learning.