Grainne Conole of e4inovation.com is the co-author of a must read paper entitled "Using learning design as a framework for supporting the design and reuse of Open Educational Resources". I think the use of Compendium, a mind mapping tool, as a remix tool may just work…
Hi thanks for this posting - just ran a two day workshop which included using CompendiumLD - visualising designs does seem to add something new and useful to the design process, although i think there is still alot of work to do in terms of finding what different representations of designs are useful and in what contexts.