Systematic investigation of e learning technological tools and resources to support tutors' design of educational content is at the core of the ongoing research in Higher Education. Training of ODL Tutors in chunking and restructuring educational content with added pedagogical value is a key factor in ODL strategic planning. As institutions and enterprises are actively collecting data and storing large databases, data mining is one step at the knowledge discovery process, dealing with patterns' and their relationships' extraction from large amounts of data. Basic characteristics and methodology of Design for Pedagogy tool (D4P), as a learning- design- oriented tool developed in Hellenic Open University (HOU) are presented: aim has been to provide support on HOU tutors for designing learning activities and space for storing educational material and activities' structures. Methodology rationale, background design of the ODL toolkit, report on preliminary usability testing are currently presented in a scope of providing scaffold and support to educators for embedding Learning Technology tools into their Open and Distance Learning courses.