Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Course outline/Design limitations

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

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 knowledge of the practical constraints of the environment.

In this section we provide a few guidelines to keep in mind when developing the outline for your learning pathways in this course.

{{IDevice|type=Pre knowledge|body=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 this link in a new window to make it easier to compare with the published course website.)
2. Note the following:
   • How the structure of the bullet list relates to the published website navigation
   • See how the next and previous buttons on the published website function in relation to the wiki course outline.