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STATUS: EARLY DESIGN AND TECHNICAL DISCOVERY
Key concept: All levels of the course hierarchy (components, units, subsections and sections) independent, composable, re-usable, and deliverable as stand-alone learning products
Key concept: Content libraries become the place for both 1) authoring modularly and 2) managing and organizing what is authored, whether authored in the library or in courses directly
Full user stories here.
Proposed expansions to Content Libraries:
*Note: This phase expands on the work undertaken in the BD-14 project.
Authoring capacities:
Create any level of course hierarchy independently in the library - components, units, subsections, sections
Parity with authoring experience in Studio (ie, OLX is supported but not required)
Capacity to create templates for units, subsections to expedite the authoring process
Descriptive metadata and taxonomy/tagging capacities:
Capacity to add structured, descriptive metadata (tags) to components, units, subsections and sections
Descriptive metadata fields | Type |
Title | authoring - fixed |
Author | authoring - fixed |
Organization | authoring - fixed |
Format | authoring - fixed |
Language | authoring - fixed |
License (CC-BY or All Rights Reserved etc.) | authoring - fixed |
Topic/subject | classification - edit-able |
Learning outcome/objective/competency | classification - edit-able |
Curriculum alignment | classification - edit-able |
Level of difficulty | classification - edit-able |
Hours of effort | administering - edit-able |
Prerequisites or dependencies | administering - edit-able |
Credential offered | administering - edit-able |
Open/customizable field 1 | |
Sub-open field 1 | |
Open/customizable field 2 | |
Sub-open field 2 |
Enhanced library/database functions:
Capacity to organize large amounts of content into hierarchical folders (or similar nested file management infrastructure) so I can easily find it
Browse, facet and search capabilities so I can search for and find stuff, using the descriptive metadata above
Capacity to version control what I create (active vs implicit TBD)
Content use capacities:
Options to add what I create in libraries to any course
Options to keep copies linked to the original with automated updates or to break the links
Options to author a full course and have all course components dumped into library where I can organize them to reuse later
Options to export what I create into any external LMS
Other parameters:
No configuration done in libraries - just content authoring
Flatten the current distinctions between “text libraries”, “video libraries” and “problem libraries” into just libraries. If an author wants to create a library of just videos, they can do that, but we don’t prescribe that at a platform level. Maybe we start calling them “My Libraries”
Private to me, my course teams or my organization - same access permissions as studio
Capacity for multiple libraries per person and group collaboration in shared libraries
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