Feedback on Digital Skills course
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Digital skills for collaborative OER development/ Outline
Hi Wendy,
Thanks for taking the time to review the DS4OER outline. I appreciate your constructive and valuable feedback.
- I'm leaving the authoring of the front-end material for last (so that I can include a gestalt / advance organiser as you have suggested.) The course guide will contain the minimum resources recommended by the OERu partners in earlier discussions.
- I have changed the titles of the topics in the Courseware section to include verbs as you will see in the revised outline. Excellent suggestion.
- As per the Blueprint for this course there is one assignment - essentially the learning materials published (plus a reflection). I must still develop the assessment rubric.
- To clarify, the challenges are not an alternate form of assessment. These are substantive doing activities which focus on learners developing authentic artefacts they will use in their final course.
- Apart from the course guide - the OERu partners have steered away form convention or dictating design or nomenclature. There are too many institutions in the network and wide variety of disciplines and courses to adopt a uniform practice. This does increase cognitive load, but on the plus side, figuring out how to navigate sites is a learning skill which serves learning for the 21st century. But as you recommend, the getting started section will provide a succinct advance organiser.
Incremental improvement following an incremental design model.
