DL 4: Creating and Curating Contents for learning

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Creating

Clarity and Simplicity: Ensure that learning objectives are clear and content is presented in a well-structured and straightforward manner.
Interactivity: Incorporate interactive elements to engage learners and promote active learning.
Accessibility: Design content that is accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities, by following accessibility standards.
Relevance: Use real-world examples and scenarios to make the content relevant and relatable.
Feedback: Provide timely and constructive feedback to support learner progress.
 

Curating

Quality: Select high-quality resources that are accurate, up-to-date, and credible.
Alignment: Ensure that curated content aligns with the learning objectives and curriculum.
Variety: Select a mix of different types of resources (videos, articles, interactive simulations) to cater to diverse learning styles.
Licensing: Respect copyright laws and use resources that are appropriately licensed for educational use.
Contextualization: Adapt and contextualize curated content to fit the specific needs and context of your learners.
 
By combining these principles, instructional designers can create and curate digital learning objects that enhance the learning experience and support diverse learners.

Instructions:

Think about creating a digital object—whether it’s a new one or reusing one that’s shared online for reuse. Then, follow these steps:

  1. Define Your Goal: Start by defining one clear, concise learning objective for your digital learning object.
  2. Know Your Audience: Briefly describe your target learners, including their background, skills, and needs.
  3. Design & Create: Design an interactive digital learning object (e.g., interactive quiz, short scenario-based activity, annotated resource) that directly addresses your learning objective.

     

    • Provide a link and brief description.
    • Explain the object aligns with the learning objective.
    • Address licensing (e.g., OER, Creative Commons).
    • Describe how you would contextualize it for your learners.
    • How accessibility principles are supported in your design.

4. Share the URL and description of your object or add image as an attachment. Provide feedback to your peers.


Further Reading

A set of posters on how to design for accessibility (UK Home office GitHub)

    • Learn about five different kinds of cues you can use to introduce and frame a video in your course, and help students actively engage with the video, in Introduce and Frame Your Video Content (webpage). These cues can be adapted for different types of resources too.
  • To browse Interactive OERs for use in your course, check out the eCampus Ontario H5P Repository, a catalogue of H5P activities that can be filtered by keywords, subject, and licence. (Be sure to check the licence before adopting or adapting it!) Or browse free, open, and customizable materials in BCcampus’s B.C. Open Collection.
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