TAADES502A
Design and develop learning resources
This unit specifies the competency required to design and develop resources to support learning.
Competency Field
Learning Design
Application of the Unit
Learning resources are designed to enhance and support the effectiveness of the learning process. They provide guidance, materials, learning and assessment activities, and relevant information that address the competencies/learning outcomes to be achieved by the learner.
In the TAA04 Training and Assessment Training Package, learning resources are defined as learning materials that have been specifically developed to address a substantive area of teaching/learning and/or assessment guidance and support.
Learning resources may address a whole Training Package, a Training Package or course qualification or a learning program. Learning resources may also take the form of existing equipment, physical materials and physical resources within the learning environment.
Learning resources can take a variety of forms such as facilitation guides, learning guides/participant resources, assessment materials, workplace resources and text books, and may be self-paced or instructor-led. While primarily text and print-based, other mediums such as audio or video learning resources could be developed using this unit. The complexity of the resource will vary depending on its focus, type, audience and technological medium.
Although the range of learning resources may vary, the skills and knowledge required to design and develop them is the same, with instructional design being a critical aspect.
Where a learning resource product is built around an electronic medium, other critical skills, knowledge and outcomes are required. These are addressed through separate units of competency, TAADES503A Research and design e-learning resources and TAADES504A Develop and evaluate e-learning resources. Co-learning and co-assessment is suggested where competency across all media is required.
Design and development are combined in this unit. In some circumstances the design phase and content development are separated, especially in a large project. However, it is important that competency reflects the whole process.
Depending on the complexity of the resource, extensive consultation and working with others may be required.
This unit can provide a specific application for undertaking the generic unit TAATAS503A Manage contracted work.
The competency specified in this unit is typically required by trainers/facilitators, instructional designers, assessors and consultants.
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Display Unit
- Reconstruct the unit from the database and display it as a plain HTML page.
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This has several advantages over the cut-and-paste from PDF option, in that hard carriage returns are removed, and multi-column data is stored in tables. You do miss out on some formatting, but the data is otherwise mostly unchanged, the main difference being that terms and definitions in the range statement's variable/scope list displayed are in alphabetical order here (but not in the original).
- ?Training O2 Resources
- community submitted and rated resources for the unit
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A social news gathering site built around training package units. Students and trainers can submit links to on-line resources which will be voted on by other site users; commented on, and promoted (or not) depending on the resource's usefulness.
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- Chose 'Save file as...' from the popup and get a personal, stand-alone student journal for the unit.
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This link will prompt you to download a TiddlyWiki for the unit. If you're not sure what a wiki is, the wikipedia is a good example, and it has a good entry on wikis too. TiddlyWikis are special cases of wikis in that they can be saved and edited on a local drive. You will need to save the TiddlyWiki onto your hard drive, and if you're using Internet Explorer, you'll need to allow JavaScript to run for the file (Firefox, Opera and Safari users shouldn't have this trouble).
- ?Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment
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This link will create a csv file that can be opened with a spreadsheet application. It lists all the performance criteria and includes some calculations for a final grade. Without any indication of weighting for each criteria in the training package, I've had to allocate each an equal mark. You may need to adjust this :-)
- ?Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for individual students to fill in
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This will generate a simple html page with a table for students to enter details of evidence they would like assessed as meeting the unit's performance criteria. You can copy this page into a word processor or print it out from your web browser for each student.
- ?Keywords
- a tag cloud of the keywords for the unit with links to on-line resouces for each word
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A machine generated list of links to resouces that may be useful when teaching this unit. Includes links to creative commons licensed images, wikipedia articles, and sites listed on del.icio.us
- ?XML
- pick up an XML version of the unit that will allow you to generate stuff directly from the data (like your own assessment templates and evidence sheets)
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This link will upload an XML representation of the unit. This should allow you to extract and use the information in a flexible manner, dropping the bits and pieces in where you need them.
I hope the tags are self explanatory, but drop me a line if you're having problems. I'd also love to see any novel new uses people come up with (and if you write a bit of PHP, a schema, DTD or XSLT to manipulate the data please send it to me so that I can include it here)
- ?MediaWiki and WikiSpaces formats
- mark up the unit in a wiki format, ready to paste into the wikiversity or wikispaces
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These links will create wikimedia and wikispaces versions of the unit. This should allow you to cut and paste the information into any wikimedia type wiki, such as the wikipedia or wikiversity or a wikispaces wiki.