EDT4OL/Guide/Syllabus

The syllabus page provides a recommended schedule for completing the course. You should aim to spend between 3 to 6 hours each week to complete the activities and learning challenges at times which are convenient for your own schedule. The time you spend completing the challenges will vary according to your existing digital skills and experience. You are free to study at your own pace and access to the materials will remain open.

The Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning (EDT4OL) course is divided into two phases:

1. Preparing a successful Acceptance portfolio to gain entry to a facilitated cohort (2 weeks)
2. Completing the Course learning challenges (3 weeks)

Each week is subdivided into Sessions.

Acceptance portfolio

Week 1

Session	Details
Portfolio getting started	Website orientation before course starts
Portfolio Session 1	Basic wiki skills
Portfolio Session 2	Copyright and Creative Commons licensing

Week 2

Session	Details
Portfolio Session 3	Learning contract
Portfolio Session 4	Publish personal blog post

EDT4OL course

Week 1

Session	Details
EDT4OL Session 0	Establish your PLE
EDT4OL Session 1	Interactive learning with H5P
EDT4OL Session 2	Developing a storyboard

Week 2

Session	Details
EDT4OL Session 3	Outlining a learning pathway
EDT4OL Session 4	Intermediate wiki skills

Week 3

Session	Details
EDT4OL Session 5	Snapshot process
EDT4OL Session 6	Authoring a learning sequence

Session details

Portfolio getting started

Course overview

Familiarise yourself with the course site and course guide.

• Date: Before the course starts
• Resources
  1. About EDT4OL
  2. Start here
  3. Course guide (Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of each screen of the course guide or use the site navigation to proceed.)
• Key activities
  1. Please complete the Pre-course survey online. (This will help us to better support students on this course).

Portfolio Session 1

Basic wiki skills

Demonstrate semantic markup skills by publishing a user page on WikiEducator.

• Date: Week 1 - Acceptance portfolio
• Resources
  1. What is a wiki?
  2. Why use a wiki?
  3. OER reuse
• Key activities
  1. Request a WikiEducator account
  2. Basic wiki skills challenge

Portfolio Session 2

Copyright and Creative Commons licensing

Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in copyright and Creative Commons licensing by passing a short knowledge test.

• Date: Week 1 - Acceptance portfolio
• Resources
  1. Open licensing - The Basics (from the DS4OERS course)
  2. CC Remix game (from the DS4OERS course)
• Key activities
  1. Take the test on Copyright and Creative Commons licensing

Portfolio Session 3

Learning contract

Sign the EDT4OL Learning contract.

• Date: Week 2 - Acceptance portfolio
• Resources
  1. Select a design project
• Key activities
  1. Sign and submit your EDT4OL Learning contract, including selection of design project

Portfolio Session 4

Publish personal blog post

Demonstrate online publishing skills by preparing a blog post sharing evidence of prerequisite knowledge for this course.

• Date: Week 2 - Acceptance portfolio
• Resources
  1. Portfolio blog challenge
• Key activities
  1. Request blog site
  2. Publish blog site

EDT4OL Session 0

Establish a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

Create accounts on websites to establish your digital Personal Learning Environment (PLE) to connect with your community during and after the course.

• Date: Course week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. Establish your PLE by creating the website accounts you will need
• Key activities
  1. Familiarise yourself with the EDT4OL platform
  2. Use a password manager for the online tools used in this course
  3. Create Moodle account and enrol in the EDT4OL course
  4. Create Forums account and complete spot poll
  5. Create account on EDT4OL social media site and post first message

EDT4OL Session 1

Interactive learning with H5P

Create interactive online learning activities using H5P software.

• Date: Course week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. Create interactive online learning activities using H5P software
• Key activities
  1. Adding H5P to a blog post
  2. Creating your own True False Question
  3. Creating Multiple Choice questions
  4. Reusing H5P objects
  5. H5P interactive content challenge
  6. Knowledge quiz

EDT4OL Session 2

Developing a storyboard

Publish a storyboard for a sub-section of an online course website.

• Date: Course week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. Developing a storyboard
• Key activities
  1. Storyboard challenge
  2. Knowledge quiz

EDT4OL Session 3

Outlining a learning pathway

Sequence and 'chunk' the individual pages of a learning pathway to generate an outline spreadsheet template.

• Date: Course week 2
• Learning materials:
  1. Outlining a learning pathway
• Key activities
  1. Outlining a pathway challenge
  2. Knowledge quiz

EDT4OL Session 4

Intermediate wiki skills

Complete a series of activities and mini-challenges, leading to creation of a page in WikiEducator demonstrating a range of intermediate wiki skills needed for publishing online learning material.

• Date: Course week 2
• Learning materials:
  1. Developing intermediate wiki skills
• Key activities
  1. Working with images
  2. Image metadata and ALT descriptions
  3. Using images from the Wikimedia Commons
  4. Creating and editing a pedagogical template
  5. Inserting a footnote or citation reference
  6. Creating and modifying a wiki table
  7. Creating quizzes using wiki markup
  8. Intermediate wiki skills challenge
  9. Knowledge quiz

EDT4OL Session 5

Snapshot process

Snapshot a collection of individual wiki pages listed on an 'outline' page on WikiEducator to a WordPress course site.

• Date: Course week 3
• Learning materials:
  1. Snapshot process
• Key activities
  1. Create an outline page with sub-pages for a learning pathway
  2. Snapshot challenge
  3. Knowledge quiz

EDT4OL Session 6

Authoring and publishing a learning sequence

Author the content for a learning pathway integrating activities in the wiki then publish the outputs to a WordPress course Multisite.

• Date: Course week 3
• Learning materials:
  1. Authoring a learning sequence
• Key activities
  1. OER inventory mini-challenge
  2. Learn wiki markup to embed video
  3. Learn wiki markup to embed an H5P object
  4. Learning sequence challenge
  5. Knowledge quiz