OSI-EDU-WG-notes-4mar2014

* We'll be preparing a general invite soon, but if you have colleague who may like to participate in the OSI-EDU-WG, feel free to bring them along to the teleconf

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* New content on project management in the Syllabus needs feedback, eg the "learning outcomes". Good responses so far

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== 3. FLOW Syllabus Usability ==

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* It's a bit overwhelming

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* Being able to tag the modules/items would be helpful

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* Tag at what level of granularity?...hard to say, but that will be an emergent process

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* Joseph will communicate with someone involved with Protege Ontology Manager at Stanford for some ideas ...if you haven't seen http://protege.stanford.edu/ take a look. Very cool for the relatively sophisticated folk who organize information. It's been around a long time (it has a quarter million users today, and had 50,000 users back in 2006). There might be an existing ontology that the FLOW Syllabus ought to conform to (or at least map to)

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* There are a few different aspects:

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** "What my students would learn"

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** "Outcomes"

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** "Learning activities"

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* It may be useful to write short "use case" scenarios for using the Syllabus

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** Each use case will have implications

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** This will help the WG to understand the audiences

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** And will help a course designed understand what

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parts/emements of their course would likely be essential/useful to each audience type

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* Basically, we now need to provide "tour guides" through the syllabus... By analogy, "Going to Venice":

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** ...for architects

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** ...for culinary arts

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** ...for business

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** ...for etc.

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* These can supply some audience-tailored guidance

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** granular (bullet point level)

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** tags would enable the separate views

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== 4. FLOW Syllabus Scope ==

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**Question:** Should "activities" be in or outside the syllabus?

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* This would help to outline the topics and sources

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* Courses include activities

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* Educators/community can create courses and share those

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* Activities help learners engage and practice the use of the information to develop understanding

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* What we should not do...

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** We don't want to poorly usurp the role of online learning sites, rather we want to provide them useful resources

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** We don't want to miss engaging those partners by only having the learning activity collection distributed amongst multiple environments

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** Narrow the potential community because learning activiteis are designed for a particular audience (there's an inverse relationship between embedded pedagogy and reusability)

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* Learning activities can form a coherent package however

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* What is the ideal nature of content developmemt to hand-off from the syllabus and the course designers?

** Technical

** Conceptual

** Operational