The first OLnet Expert Fellow, Yannis Dimitriadis, has finished his fellowship and returned to work at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He worked with Grainne Conole on the way in which patterns can feed into designs for OER. In particular an approach is being piloted that takes established patterns for collaborative group work and uses this to generate new activities based on OER. This approach has been used as the basis for a series of workshops to communicate and test the ideas.