Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Develop learning pathway/Designing e-Learning activities

The integration of learning activities helps to promote interaction, encourage reflection and generate opportunities for learners to create and share artefacts through a learn-by-doing process.

There are many ways to achieve this through thoughtful design and breaking up the content to embed, for example: peer interactions, case studies, scenarios, quizzes etc. In WikiEducator we signal learning activities using pedagogical templates (IDevices).

In this learning pathway we encourage authors to think creatively about the range of predefined template types which could be embedded in the learning pathways you are developing for this course. However, the question of learning activities is closely related to pedagogical challenges associated with open design including how to promote peer-to-peer learning interactions and considerations for developing materials for independent study without reliance on traditional learning management systems to facilitate reuse in different delivery contexts.

Before commencing with the development of your learning pathways, it will be useful to think about the kind of learning activities you could embed in your resources.