{"id":3686,"date":"2016-03-26T05:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/?page_id=3686"},"modified":"2016-03-26T05:13:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:13:45","slug":"course-outline-structure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/outlining-a-course\/course-outline-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Course outline structure"},"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\">\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Spiral-staircase-image.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/4\/49\/Spiral-staircase-image.jpg\/300px-Spiral-staircase-image.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Designing for learning progression<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The navigation of the course website is generated from the structure of the course outline, which is based on the <a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/outlining-a-course\/sequencing-and-chunking\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Course outline\/Sequencing and chunking\">sequencing and chunking<\/a> of the learning materials. With a well-defined underlying structure, the navigation of the course website determines a learning progression based on manageable units of information.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"A_note_about_nomenclature\">A note about nomenclature<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this course, we refer to the manageable unit of information as a <i>learning pathway<\/i> which is the sequence a learner would typically complete during a session.  We have purposefully avoided using nomenclatures like:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Topic &#8211;&gt; Section &#8212;&gt; Unit or\n<\/li>\n<li> Module &#8211;&gt; Unit &#8212;&gt; Lesson.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is to facilitate reuse and integration of resources across institutions and to avoid ambiguity which may arise when the same concept is used to mean different things in different contexts and environments.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Outline_templates\">Outline templates<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Learners are free to choose their own nomenclature and structures for sequencing and chunking the learning materials. In this course, you are required to develop two learning pathways. Usually these learning pathways are situated within the context of a larger course structure. So for example, this course has the following components:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Startup<\/b> which provides the steps for getting started.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Course guide<\/b> which contains information about the learning outcomes for the course, an overview, the course syllabus, the course assingment and any recommended resources which accompany the course.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Interactions<\/b> where course announcements are posted and the aggregated course feed which harvests interactions on the web using the &#8220;ds4oer&#8221; tag (i.e. microblog and blog posts, comments on the course site and posts to Google +)\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Learning pathways<\/b> which lists the individual learning pathways (i.e. the courseware which guide learners through the learning resources and course activities)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the purposes of this course, you are not required to develop the outline structure for a full course. The minimum requirements for the course outline are:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Course landing page or homepage for the course\n<\/li>\n<li> Two learning pathways\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, you are free to develop a more comprehensive structure, but the main focus of this learning pathway is to determine the sequence of individual pages within two learning pathways.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Example_sequence_of_an_individual_learning_pathway\">Example sequence of an individual learning pathway<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The outline of a learning pathway is a sequential list of individual pages planned for a learning session, or in other words, the table of contents for individual pages of your learning pathway. The outline is used for chunking concepts, which defines the sequence of individual webpages and navigation for a learning pathway. For example, the sequence of pages for the learning pathway in this course titled &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/Digital_skills_for_collaborative_OER_development\/_Outline\">Designing a blueprint<\/a>&#8221; in the wiki outline (scroll down to the relevant pathway in the courseware section) is summarised in the following table:\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"oeru1 table table-striped\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Learning pathway page\n<\/th>\n<th>Summary of the page content\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/overview\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Objectives\">Overview<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Summary of the learning objectives for the learning pathway\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/video-signpost\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Video signpost\">Video signpost<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Succinct video from a practitioner describing what a blueprint is and how it is used in the open design model\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/open-design-and-development\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Open design\">Open design and development<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Describing open design and illustrating how this is different from traditional instructional design\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/workflow\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Workflow\">Workflow<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Overview of the design and development process incorporating key milestones, for example, course description, design blueprint, course outline, development, delivery, and revision\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/planning-homepage\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Planning homepage\">Planning homepage<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Summary of the structure and suggested links for the planning homepage of a course development in WikiEducator\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/start-course-description-challenge\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Course description challenge\">Course description challenge<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Substantive e-learning activity to develop a course description for the public listing of the course and the &#8220;About&#8221; page of the course site\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/blueprint-components\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Blueprint components\">Blueprint components<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Summary of the main components of a course blueprint\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/blueprint-example\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Example\">Blueprint example<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Links to real-world examples of a course blueprint\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/designing-a-blueprint\/start-design-blueprint-challenge\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Design blueprint\/Design blueprint challenge\">Design blueprint challenge<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Substantive e-learning activity to develop a design blueprint\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>At this phase of the design, some developers may find it useful to storyboard the anticipated content for individual pages, for example the headings and sub-headings of the individual pages. However, the primary purpose of the course outline is to determine the sequence of the individual webpages in the course. The resultant outline page is the wiki page used for automatically generating the navigation and links to content pages for the published website (see <a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/outlining-a-course\/our-web-publishing-model\" title=\"Digital skills for collaborative OER development\/Course outline\/Web publishing model\">web publishing model<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.031 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.175 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 15\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 26\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 6\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:165457-0!*!0!!*!2!* and timestamp 20160326051340 and revision id 954744\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\/outlining-a-course\/design-constraints\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/ds4oer\/learning-pathways\/outlining-a-course\/start-course-outline-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>Designing for learning progression The navigation of the course website is generated from the structure of the course outline, which is based on the sequencing and chunking of the learning materials. 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