Module A3: Scoping Your Project

Module A3: Scoping Your Project Worksheet

 

Overview

Now that you’ve described your values and goals and determined your capacity for your open pedagogy project, it’s time to define the scope of your project. Think of this as your lede: the what, when, how, and where of what you’ll be doing with students. While this may seem like a simple request, open pedagogy projects can range from a one-time, one-semester Wikipedia editing assignment to a multi-semester, hundreds of students, textbook creation project with a multitude of other options in between.

You may have come to this workshop with a precise idea in mind, or you may be coming with many ideas. Any idea is fair game for this Roadmap, but we suggest that you choose one for this workshop. Look back at the scope of your values, goals, and capacity and determine what is both realistic and possible and answer the questions below with that in mind.

 

Activity

  1. What is the project? What will students be doing?
  2. When will this project be completed? Is it one-time over one semester or long-term over multiple years, or modular?
  3. What content do you want/need to cover?
  4. Open pedagogy is inherently somewhat more process-centric than more conventional teaching methods, but there is undoubtedly considerable content that you need to cover. It can be helpful to map your content to your process to ensure that the content doesn’t get lost.
  5. What is the process for this work going to look like in the classroom?
  6. Think about what the intended final output(s) of this project is and work backward in order to determine what assignments are necessary to create that. For instance, if you want to produce an OER textbook, you may need to create multiple assignments over a period of several semesters in order to generate different components of that textbook.
  7. Where will they do it?
    • In the learning management system
    • In Pressbooks or another digital book publishing system
    • In shared Google or Microsoft products
    • On the public web
    • In WikiEdu
    • In hypothes.is

 

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