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

[Jacques Raynauld]

Hi Bruce and Janice.

Thanks Janice for raising our Open Syllabus project ... which is evolving.
 In our new version, everything is organized around activities to do before
class, during class and after class. Each activity has the usual Read,
Write, Execute attribute found in computing. Activities can be mandatory or
 optional.  To each activity is associated one or several resources.  This
rich semantic that can be easily extended makes the syllabus a much more
dynamic and useful tool to students.  It is especially suited for smart
phone and calendar (as Keli suggested).

Jacques.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] rethinking/simplifying learning
activities
To: janice.smith at threecanoes.com
Cc: pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org


Hi Janice,

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM, janice.smith
<janice.smith at threecanoes.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks. I've chatted with Jacques (the excellent manifesto on syllabi
for OAE), but hadn't seen that.

> 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.

This is indeed broadly similar to what I'm suggesting. But to be
really blunt, organizing a UI around abstract terms like "context,"
"structure" and "resource" is not user-friendly.

Users don't interact with "resources": they read books, they watch
videos, they listen to music, etc.

That kind of thing.

I want a concrete, user-focused, activity UI.

So I'm imaging a UI and a model with just two things: tasks and topics
(a named list of tasks), and that components of the task model (e.g.
the verbs and the objects associated with a task) would be extensible.

Bruce
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Jacques Raynauld
Professeur titulaire
HEC Montréal
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