{"id":2168,"date":"2014-06-18T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:19:10","slug":"develop-course-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2014\/06\/18\/develop-course-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not develop a course in the open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week I attended the Spring workshop for<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"etug website\" href=\"http:\/\/etug.ca\" target=\"_blank\">ETUG: the BC Educational Technology User&#8217;s Group.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among the many great presentations I saw was one by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Hibbits Design website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulhibbitts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Hibbits<\/a><\/span>, who spoke of doing course development openly, meaning not just sitting in your office trying to develop and plan a course on your own, but doing it more publicly.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can see<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slides.com\/paulhibbitts\/etug-spring-2014-developing-a-course-in-the-open-a-case-study#\/\" target=\"_blank\">slides for his presentation here,<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and they are embedded below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/slides.com\/paulhibbitts\/etug-spring-2014-developing-a-course-in-the-open-a-case-study\/embed\" width=\"576\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Basically what he did was do all his planning on a public space (he chose<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/workflowy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workflowy <\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and made it open to view), and sent out messages on Twitter and other social media sites to get feedback. The most interesting part, though, was that he got a list of emails of the students in his class (the one he was developing) and sent them the planning document so they could (a) get a better sense of what the class will be like before it starts, and (more importantly) (b) give feedback. He didn&#8217;t actually get any feedback from students, which, as he mentioned, isn&#8217;t surprising because after all they&#8217;re going to be students of yours and don&#8217;t want to give a negative impression. But he did offer them an option to give anonymous feedback, so I&#8217;m a bit surprised that no one took that option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I sat there and listened to the presentation and discussion, I thought: &#8220;Duh&#8230;why didn&#8217;t I ever think of this?&#8221; I like to open up my teaching practice while it&#8217;s happening, and I reflect on it quite a bit in this blog, but why not actually share my outline, learning objectives, assignments\/activities before it happens and see if I can get feedback from anyone?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve heard in various &#8220;open&#8221; forums that sharing not just the product but also the process is important, and I know from<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\" target=\"_blank\">DS106 <\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that it&#8217;s crucial for learning how to do things that people share not just what they&#8217;ve created but how they did it. But why I never thought to do that with my teaching, I have no idea. So I&#8217;m very glad I attended this session!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0I am in the process of developing a second-year course on moral theory for Fall 2014, so I&#8217;m going to follow Paul&#8217;s lead and make my planning process public. I just have to decide whether I&#8217;m going to use Workflowy or something else. Google docs would work too. Paul said he tried a mind map, and it didn&#8217;t work so well, and I&#8217;m just not personally very drawn to doing my own mind maps, so I think I&#8217;ll go some other route. Suggestions?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended the Spring workshop for ETUG: the BC Educational Technology User&#8217;s Group. 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