VUSSC/ProjectPlan

What needs to be done?

 * Two courses (Tourism & Entrepreneurship)
 * Tourism
 * Entrepreneurship

Before

 * Upload SME bios on the wiki
 * Set up ice-breaker acitivity on discussion forum for boot camp SMEs
 * Assign SMEs to groups
 * Develop learner profiles (eg prerequisite knowledge of learners etc.)
 * "Graduate" profile
 * Develop curriculum outline
 * '''Course aims and objectives
 * Establish units/sections
 * Determine assessment strategy
 * Learning activities
 * "Media" resource types'''
 * Evaluation of existing materials - select & identify material for reconfiguration - being done, results to be posted on wiki
 * Select and decide on "pedagogical" template
 * Given the target of 10 notional learning hours - decide on the priority area for content to be developed
 * Develop prototype/representative sample of materials and piloting?
 * Develop boot camp agenda and preparatory materials
 * Publish & distribute dates for the boot camp including how people can participate remotely
 * Dates when content on wiki will be available for review
 * Identify and gather resources prior to boot camp
 * Plan a course evaluation instrument

Note: Items in bold are showstoppers

During the 3-week boot camp

 * Authoring of course material
 * Reviewing course material
 * Implementing refinements
 * Reviewing published material
 * Identifying and specifying resource requirements eg graphics, photos etc.

After

 * Trialing materials

Milestones

 * 8 completed notional learning hours of material (First draft, evaluation, revision and DTP)


 * 14 content experts / team leaders
 * 3 support staff (Editing, graphic design, layout)

Development process

 * Day 1: Introductions, discussion of project development plan, basic wiki skills training
 * Day 2: The four SME course teams draft 1 notional learning hour's worth of material - post content on wiki at 4pm
 * Day 3: Review process
 * Morning - each team reviews the work of another team
 * Afternoon - implement revisions and refine pedagogical template
 * Day 4: Complete first revision cycle & commence work on next notional learning hour
 * Morning - complete revisions and refinements to pedagogical template
 * Afternoon - commence development of 2nd notional learning hour
 * Hand over 1st learning hour for publishing
 * Day 5: Complete development of 2nd notional learning hour & commence work on introductory study unit (i.e how to study this course)
 * Morning - Complete development of 2nd notional learning hour
 * Afternoon - Start work on Introductory study unit
 * Upload 2nd notional learning hour on wiki for review
 * Day 6: Review and refinement of 2nd notional learning hour
 * Morning - Review of 2nd notional learning hour
 * Afternoon - Implement revisions
 * Afternoon - Hand over 2nd notional learning hour for publishing

Remaining days to be completed based on the development cycle above.

Table for Workload breakdown of Professional support staff below:

Notes:


 * 1) First cycle to implement revisions will require 1 full day's work given the requirement to refine the pedagogical template based on the review process
 * 2) Subsequent revision cycles are reduced to a half day given the learning curve effect and the refined template