Launch a learner-centered design team and start making things together with this quick and practical mini-course.
Website: https://ucsdlib.github.io/foundations/
Foundations in Learner-Centered Design is an online mini-course that offers a hands-on, team-based introduction to learner-centered design. It was created to help teams quickly develop creative and reflective approaches to learning and teaching.
- Course site: https://uclalibrary.github.io/foundations/
- Course theme: Adapted from the Jekyll Course template from P2PU.
- Cite this mini-course: Worsham, D., & Roux, S. (2019). Foundations in Learner-Centered Design. Retrieved from https://uclalibrary.github.io/foundations
- License: Unless otherwise noted, all the materials on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Unported license.
We welcome contributions and ideas for improvement! Feel free to click the "Improve this page" button on the bottom of any course page to suggest improvements. You can also fork the site, make your changes, and then submit a pull request. See how to fork a repository for help getting started.
The content for the course is found in the modules folder. Every module in the course has a subfolder inside the modules folder. And inside every module folder, you will find a special folder called _posts, eg. key-ideas/_posts. Inside the folder called _posts, you will find an html or markdown file for each page in the module. The filenames for this files start with the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD-sectionname.md. The date determines the order of the sections in the module.
An example of the file layout for this course:
modules/key-ideas/_posts/2000-01-01-key-ideas.html
modules/key-ideas/_posts/2000-01-02-active-learning.html
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See https://howto.p2pu.org/modules/tutorial/start/ for more information on the structure and organization of this course.
In this course we use interactive readers to quickly present key ideas on teaching and learning (aka "learning theory). Our hope is that these readers are:
- very short (i.e., sentences and paragraphs instead of articles)
- interactive in that they prompt the reader to engage with the text in multiple ways
- potentially collaborative in that they can be completed as a team activity (but also individually, if necessary)
The interactive readers were created using h5p, a free tool for creating interactive content. Our h5p activities are currently hosted in UCLA Library's Moodle site. To suggest an improvement or change to one of the interactive readers, please submit an issues letting us know your ideas and advice!
You can also suggest ideas for improvement on our issues page.
Please contact the WI+RE team with your questions and ideas!