Talk:Using fiction writing to develop empathy/Design blueprint
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| Feedback | 0 | 18:32, 23 April 2015 |
| Design blueprint is shaping up nicely | 0 | 18:08, 22 April 2015 |
Hello Marc,
Thanks for sharing your interesting course design ideas. As I mentioned to Grian, both of you inspired me to come up with a course design idea of my own. When I started the ds4oer course, as an instructional designer, I was focused on learning the technical aspects of open wiki course delivery. It was not in my mind to create my own new course.
I was struck by the emphasis on empathy in both your course and in Grian's course. That helped me generate my idea for a course on Intercultural Team Learning - in which empathy is also a critical ability. Thanks for that.
Thinking about learning outcomes in your course, I imagine that students will have opportunities to develop their own personal capacity for empathy skills in all their thinking about it's role in various aspects of literature – and maybe especially when they share their own work with fellow learners. It might be worth adding that as a learning outcome in its own right.
I spotted a few minor typos when I was reading your course description and edited them. If you mind, I won't do it again. But if you spot typos in my docs, please feel free to edit them and let me know.
Best, Donna
I like how the design blueprint is taking shape in implementing your course description.
My open question is to think carefully about workload. Creative writing is a time consuming process and my gut feel is that there may be too much writing for the number of hours allocated to the course. I could be wrong (as I don't have the detail of the writing assignments) but you will need to do a workload calculation to see if the "average" learner would be able to complete the activities within the allocated time.
