Thinking of using Agile Methodology for creating learning materials? Stephen Downes comments
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=63679
... on a blog by Allison Littlejohn about Open University.
Working closely with your media designers using the "module resources (as a 'mediating artifact')" is hardly disruptive but it does reflect some of the jargon-breaking methods and customer focus of Agile. If you don't talk the same lingo then what the professors mean and the media designers mean may be very different.
Small in-house teams would probably approach the production of learning media in this way quite naturally. It is when you become a bigger institution or outsource media expertise that flexibility and shared understanding risk being left behind.
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=63679
... on a blog by Allison Littlejohn about Open University.
Working closely with your media designers using the "module resources (as a 'mediating artifact')" is hardly disruptive but it does reflect some of the jargon-breaking methods and customer focus of Agile. If you don't talk the same lingo then what the professors mean and the media designers mean may be very different.
Small in-house teams would probably approach the production of learning media in this way quite naturally. It is when you become a bigger institution or outsource media expertise that flexibility and shared understanding risk being left behind.
No comments:
Post a Comment