{"id":3642,"date":"2016-03-26T05:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/?page_id=3642"},"modified":"2016-03-26T05:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:12:26","slug":"start-course-description-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/start-course-description-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Start &#8211; Course description challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"summary\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_summary.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Challenge summary<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100px\"><b>Summary<\/b>:<\/td>\n<td>Develop and publish public course description intended for prospective learners.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"floatleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Time7.svg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Time7.svg\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/8\/88\/Time7.svg\/30px-Time7.svg.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>2 hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"floatleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Font2.svg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Font2.svg\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/e\/e5\/Font2.svg\/30px-Font2.svg.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Not linked to the course assignment but productive first step towards developing a design blueprint.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Note: Learners from OERu partners will be able to reuse the course description for the OERu website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Start_here\">Start here<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"web resources\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_inter.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Stimulus resources<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For inspiration and ideas, explore the web pages for the institutions linked below to read a large variety of course descriptions. Are there any writing styles that you prefer?\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/oeru.org\/courses\/\">OERu<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/categories\">Future Learn<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\">edX<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/courses\">Coursera<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"objectives\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Purpose<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The overall aim of this challenge is to draft a public course description intended for prospective learners. This is a two step process:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Creating the &#8220;Course description&#8221; subpage from your course planning page in the wiki.\n<\/li>\n<li> Drafting the text for your course description and publishing this in the wiki.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In this challenge you will:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Decide on a descriptive title for your course\n<\/li>\n<li> Consider generic course metrics\n<\/li>\n<li> Produce a strapline sentence for your course (a strapline is a type of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/advertising_slogan\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:advertising slogan\">advertising slogan<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li> Summarise what your course is about\n<\/li>\n<li> Describe how your course will be taught\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By completing this challenge you will have content suitable for publishing on an &#8220;About&#8221; page for your course website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.040 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.041 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 356\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1119\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 9215\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 3866\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 8\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:163725-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20160326051224 and revision id 953286\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/planning-homepage\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/tasks-course-description-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start here \u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3630,"menu_order":5400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3642\/revisions\/3643"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}