Y1 Unit 1.1: Learning Objectives and Overview
Learning Objectives
- Locate the online documents where you’ll collaborate with your team.
- Discuss the Open Curriculum Development Project Criteria for Success.
- Contextualize your course with your background scan.
- Draft an author bio and get to know each other.
Overview
Thank you for embarking on an Open Curriculum Development Project with us!
As you read in Unit 0, the first six units of this training, including the one that you’re about to read, are our Textbook Accelerator. As the name suggests, this phase of the project will be intense as we gain momentum towards writing the first chapters of your book. Please make space in your schedule and be prepared to take in and integrate new information in each unit, in addition to working on your project. Note: this is the heaviest reading unit of the Textbook Accelerator because you’ll start looking at material linked in your background scan.
We will present a moderate amount of content in each unit, not only because there’s a limit to the information you can absorb, but also because we need to give you time to do your work. There will be times when you look back and think that you could have done part of the process better if you knew more at the time. It’s okay to be nonlinear; revision cycles are built into plan.
In this unit, you will get started on your project right away, working in your team’s shared documents. You’ll get a big-picture look at where we are heading and the equity-minded design frameworks we’ll use to get there, and you will start to define your curriculum by looking at what already exists in your field.
You might notice that we will use the terms “open” and “openly licensed” without providing definitions yet. We will get there in the next unit. Now, read on for an introduction to the project and your first steps towards creating an open curriculum.
Task List With Time Estimates
Each unit begins with an overview of the tasks for the unit, along with how long we expect each task to take. Everything that we ask you to do in the unit is captured in this list, in the order that it appears in the unit. Please complete all the tasks in the list before our first meeting.
| Y1 Unit 1 Tasks (Unit Duration – 2 Weeks) | Estimated Time |
|---|---|
| Read Unit 0 | 30 minutes |
| Read Unit 1 | 60 minutes |
| Open and scan through project documents. | 15 minutes |
| Draft your author bio and leave at least one comment on someone else’s bio. | 60 minutes |
| Schedule a standing meeting time with your team | 15 minutes |
| Browse your background scans: look through and take notes on more than half of the open materials and more than half of the commercial materials. You will do the rest in Unit 2. | 1-3 hours |
| Practice an in-depth evaluation of one openly licensed resource in your background scan. | 15 minutes |
| Estimated total for all tasks over 2 weeks | 4-6 hours |
Licenses and Attributions for Learning Objectives and Overview
“Learning Objectives and Overview” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
