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==Guidelines for developing your course outline==
 
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Revision as of 02:56, 19 January 2015

Design constraints

Design with constraints
“ Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem — the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible — his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. ”

—Charles Eames[1]


Open learning design is the art of creating meaningful learning opportunities within the constraints of the reusability paradox and available technology. Successful design in this environment requires preknowledge of the practical constraints of the environment.

In this section we provide a few guidelines you should keep in mind when developing the outline in the wiki for the learning pathways you are designing for this course. Adhering to these guidelines will improve the navigation and user experience of your target website.

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Pre knowledge

You should familiarise yourself with a wiki course outline and how this relates to the resultant web site produced from harvesting the collection of wiki pages.

  1. Open a copy of the wiki outline which was used to publish this course website. (We suggest that you open the outline link in a new window to make it easier to compare with the published course website.)
  2. Note:



Guidelines for developing your course outline

  1. The first bullet in the outline list is reserved for the course homepage.
  2. The navigation structure of the target website is restricted to three hierarchical levels:
    • Level 1 is used for the global navigation of the course web site (implemented as a single bullet in the course outline)
    • Level 2 is used for the drop-down options from the global navigation of the course web site (implemented as a single indented sub-bullet in the course outline)
    • Level 3 is used for in-page navigation of third level items ((implemented as a double indented sub-bullet in the course outline)
  3. The display text for the wiki link is used for the label of the navigation item. Avoid using long titles which do not display well as menu options.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://quotesondesign.com/charles-eames-5/
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