This document discusses rethinking content development in education. It questions whether courses can be taught without predefined content and if content is more about the learning process than the final product. It suggests gathering content by browsing resources, deciding what to use, creating materials, and assembling them into a coherent body, with most thinking going into the early stages. Alternative types of quiz questions are proposed that require real-world tasks over simple recall. Employability skills like communication, teamwork and problem solving are highlighted as important outcomes. The document advocates considering what questions learners need to address to achieve goals. It stresses that developing quality elearning requires more time and questions where competent elearning practitioners can be found.

1. RETHINKING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT (All that glitters is not gold) Michael Coghlan December 2010

2. THIAGI http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/

3. WHAT ABOUT TONIGHT? http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/

4. CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WITHOUT ANY CONTENT?

5. CONTENT or PROCESS? V

6. DESTINATION or JOURNEY? V

7. CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU CO-CREATE THE CONTENT AS YOU GO?

8. The Best Way to Learn How To Do Something is to Teach It!

9. And other user-generated content? WHAT ABOUT YOUTUBE? Lecturer: “I’m amazed at the extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting... it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on cassette and are now poor quality & outdated. “

10. Gathering Content Involves Browsing possible resources Deciding which resources to use Creating resources Deciding where and how to use them Assembling resources into a coherent body of content THEN You work on how they look

11. Gathering Content Involves Browsing possible resources Deciding which resources to use Creating resources Deciding where and how to use them Assembling resources into a coherent body of content THEN You work on how they look Where does most of the thinking take place?

12. Gathering Content Involves Browsing possible resources Deciding which resources to use Creating resources Deciding where and how to use them Assembling resources into a coherent body of content THEN You work on how it looks Most of the thinking takes place here

13. THE UBIQUITOUS QUIZ

16. Open Content

17. Creative Commons Licensing from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

18. GILF

19. DOES FLASHY SPARKLING SOPHISTICATED LOOKING CONTENT EQUAL GOOD LEARNING DESIGN? (All that glitters is not gold) Michael Coghlan December 2010

21. Teamwork

22. Problem Solving

23. Initiative and Enterprise

24. Planning and Organising

25. Self-management

26. Learning

28. QUIZZES

29. Alternative Type Quiz Questions Might.... ..... ask you to get up from the computer to: Check an OH and S issue in a workshop and report back on it Take a photo that satisfies set criteria, tag it, and upload it to a database (identifying plants in Horticulture) Speak to a fellow student about the best way to solve a problem (Dealing with Difficult Customers; Hospitality) Research (Net, library, people) the various ways people have addressed a similar problem in the past (parents with dementia; Aged Care)

30. Alternative Type Quiz Questions might... ... ask you to get up from the computer to: Telephone 2 suppliers and evaluate their products/services and explain why you chose one supplier over the other (Building, Plumbing) Leave the quiz and look for suitable YouTube videos that could be used for instruction; describe, tag, and bookmark. (any subject)

32. Teamwork

33. Problem Solving

34. Initiative and Enterprise

35. Planning and Organising

36. Self-management

37. Learning

39. SCENARIO 400 gigalitres of water per year have to be put back into the Murray River if it is to be a healthy, sustainable system. This will have social and economic impacts on all towns along the river. How do we do this? What questions does each town need to address in order to achieve this goal?

40. “The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler) Image courtesy of Nancy White

41. YES IT ALL TAKES MORE TIME

42. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

43. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

45. Teamwork

46. Problem Solving

47. Initiative and Enterprise

48. Planning and Organising

49. Self-management

50. Learning