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Design phase. Where can we start?. This session is about …. … understanding and putting to use the relation between objectives, activities, content and evaluation These relationships : push us away from “content centered” design. help us think about the “whole plan” at a very early stage.
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Design phase Where can we start?
This session is about … … understanding and putting to use the relation between objectives, activities, content and evaluation These relationships : • push us away from “content centered” design. • help us think about the “whole plan” at a very early stage. • tackles the substantive/conceptual challenge, which is the first we all face.
Recap: analysis areas • Needs analysis • Target audience • Task/Topic analysis For this session we are going to concentrate on the last one
Mindmapping design Three kinds of maps • Conceptual map: must include all concepts and gaps related to the course we want to build. • Dependency map: must link learning objectives with the concepts required for a participant to achieve the objective. • Methods map: once finished the map is already a proposal on how to use content and methods to help participants achieve the objectives.
Mindmapping design Example: Workplace discrimination course. This course was originally thought to be a blended course. It ended up being a self-learning module. Target audience were line workers, admin staff and managers at a carmaker company around the world. The overall goal was to curb down discrimination incidents inside the company. Let’s see the examples …
Mindmapping design So we’ve actually have been able to establish the relations we wanted between objectives, methods, content and evaluation.
Design iterations • The maps we’ve just seen are the result of many design iterations with experts. It’s about getting implicit knowledge out of the experts experience and making it explicit so that we can really operate on it. • These maps provide a “thumbs up” to go ahead. A lot of refinement comes after.
Group work instructions! • Gather in groups corresponding to your institutions. One facilitator will be assigned to your group. • Write down a description of the course you want to develop in your institution. Please: • include the overall goals of the course. • include a description of the target audience. • Do not write ten pages. Three paragraphs should be enough. • Do not anticipate trouble, describe what you would like in an ideal world. (In case you as a group do not have a course you want to come up with, ask FAO guys to help you define one)
Instructions continued • Take 10 minutes to read and 10 minutes to discuss section 3.4 of the FAO manual. Discuss with your facilitator about learning objectives in general, make sure the team has its doubts cleared. • Start defining learning objectives for your course (not more than five). Remember you are in an ideal world, do not let potential restrictions kill your objectives. • Each group will have 5 minutes to tell the rest about their objectives and the challenges faced while writing them down.
