[DG: Teaching & Learning] rethinking/simplifying learning activities

[janice.smith]

Hello Bruce

In reference to your discussion on simplifying teaching and learning activities, I suggest that you take a look at the work done by Jacques Raynauld and his team at Montreal MATI on Open Syllabus. His presentation at the Sakai 2011 Conference can be found at
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2011/2011-06-14+Open+Syllabus+-+Building+a+coherent+learning+environment+in+Sakai+2x

Open Syllabus organizes the tasks of a course around an enhanced, interactive syllabus structure, providing a guided, virtual dashboard for all class resources, activities and products.

Janice

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Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] rethinking/simplifying learning activities
From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:15:50 -0400
To: pedagogy Learning <pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org>

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I've been working out some ideas on learning activity design in OAE, 
and wonder what people here think? 
 
So here's a textual description on Google+: 
 
<https://plus.google.com/105827662080581152585/posts/5eqJB2PFgZq> 
 
And here's the sort of UI I am imagining for inspiration (from a new 
task management/GTD app): 
 
<http://assets.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2011/03/wunderlist-windows.png> 
 
E.g. from the perspective of the learner (which should be our 
priority), their activity in OAE would be organized around a unified, 
extensible, list of tasks. Throw out entirely "assignments, "quizzes" 
and so forth. 
 
Bruce 
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