Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Announcement Session 5

Dear DS4OER participants

Welcome to Session 5 of the syllabus on Outlining a course. These instructions are for your Wednesday 22 April 2015.

Recap

The previous sessions on developing a course description and design blueprint combined with the visualisation exercise associated with developing a storyboard should help you in chunking and sequencing of the individual pages for a course outline. Moreover, your basic wiki skills will enable you to publish a draft outline in the wiki.

Outlining a course

Today's session signals a shift from design thinking to implementation. In this session you will progress your design ideas by publishing your course outline for one or more learning pathways in the wiki. You will use the individual pages you suggest during this session for populating with actual content later in the course. The idea is to determine the sequence of individual pages. The art of design is about creating within constraints, and this requires knowledge of the limitations of the technology we are using, but more importantly an understanding of how the technology we are using to publish course sites actually works.

Here are the links you need for Session 5:

• Learning materials: Outlining a course
• Learning challenge: Course outline challenge

At first glance, determining the sequence of a number of pages for a learning pathway may appear to be a trivial activity. However, you will discover that there are a wide range of considerations. Fortunately, our open design model is iterative and you will have the freedom to refine or change the sequence as your design matures when you start developing the content for the individual pages.

Have a great day!

Wayne
UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER.