This document provides an agenda and overview for a pilot workshop on the 7Cs of Learning Design. The workshop is split into 6 sessions with presentations from the organizers and e-tivity activities for course teams to work on together. The e-tivities focus on key aspects of course design like course features, course maps, learning resource audits, activity profiles, and storyboards. The goal is for course teams to work through these e-tivities to develop and refine their course design using the 7Cs framework.

1. The 7Cs of Learning Design:
A Pilot Workshop
Slides prepared for BDRA, 11 April 2012
Background info and more resources available
from http://tinyurl.com/7Cs-cloudscape

2. Plenary work
Course team work
Session 1 (e-tivities)
•Update on the Masters (GC)
•Mini-pres: background to
workshop (GW + MN)
•Intro to e-tivity 1 (GW)
E-tivity 1: Consider
your Course Features
Session 2
•Review of Course Features
(GW)
E-tivity 2: Develop
•Intro to e-tivity 2 (GC)
your Course Map
Session 3
• Review completed course E-tivity 3: Do a Learning
maps (GC) Design Resource Audit
• Intro to e-tivity 3 (AA)
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2379

3. Plenary work
Course team work
Session 4 (e-tivities)
• Review of completed resource
audits (AA)
• Intro to e-tivity 4 (GC)
E-tivity 4: Develop your
Session 5 Activity Profile
•Review of Activity Profiles (GC)
•Intro to e-tivity 5 (AA)
E-tivity 5: Develop
your Storyboard
Session 6
•Review of Storyboards (AA)
•Task Swimlane (GC)
•Intro to e-tivity 6 (AA)
•Stock-taking and target-setting E-tivity 6: Develop
for next day (GC) your e-tivities
Items in italics to be done if time on Day 1; otherwise in follow-up workshops

4. Background to the workshop
• Update on MLI
• A brief web tour:
– OULDI website
– Carpe Diem website
– 7Cs OER page
– Cloudworks cloudscape for this workshop (with
links to extra background info, blogs, etc.)
– How to find the VLE for this workshop

5. Introduction to E-tivity 1: the Course
Features template
http://linoit.com

6. Course Features resources
• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures
• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures-Excel
• http://linoit.com

7. Questions for reflection on Course
Features e-tivity
• Did individuals in the teams have different views
on any of these key aspects? If so, what were
these?
• Did you understand any of the terms in different
ways? If so, what were these?
• Did you have any ideas as to what the colours
represented? See next slide ;-)
• Did you have significantly more or fewer of any
colour? What might be the implications for
learners of this?

8. Course Features Key
• Green = Communication and collaboration
• Blue = Content and activities
• Purple = Reflection and demonstration
• Orange = Guidance and support

9. Tech affordances brainstorm
www.tinyurl.com/affordances

10. Introduction to E-tivity 2:
Develop a Course Map
www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-flickr

11. www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemap
The Course Map template

12. www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemap
Completed Course Map Example

13. Course Map resources
• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-cloudworks
• www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemap
• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-ds
• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-flickr

14. Review of Course Maps
• Discussion of Course Maps
• Have you revised your Course Features?

15. Introduction to E-tivity 3: Learning
Design Resource Audit
Format
Content (under the Text & graphics Audio Video Slides (e.g. Other (e.g. Adobe
appropriate licences) PowerPoint) Presenter)
OER for section 1.
Reflective task from
What I find and reuse iTunesU resources for Slideshare resource for Organisation X’s
source Z. Podcast for section 3.
as is sections 1 and 7. section 5. website.
Guidelines on
assignment writing.
OER for section 2.
What I find, tweak and
Assessment rubric from www.tinyurl.com/resource-audit
use
W.
What I find, repurpose New podcast based on Slides adapted from
OER for section 3.
and use X. resource Y.
What I create for this Introduction to all 5 to 8-minute A 5-minute talking Support slides for Detailed presentations
module sections of the module. summaries of key head to introduce the sections 4, 7 and 8. for sections 2, 3 and 6.
5 e-tivities. Summaries. points per section. programme and the
Assessment rubrics. Advice and guidance academic team.
for assessment.
Feedback on draft
assignments.

16. Review of Resource Audits
• Discussion of Resource Audits
• Have you revised your Course Features?
• Have your Course Maps changed?

17. Introduction to E-tivity 4:
Develop your Activity Profile
• http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash
• http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel

18. Activity Profile Resources
• www.cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3420
• www.tinyurl.com/activity-profile-ds
• www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash
• www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel

19. Review of Activity Profiles
• Discussion of Activity Profiles
• Have you revised your Course Features?
• Have your Course Maps changed?
• Do you need to modify your LD Resource
Audit?

20. Learning outcomes
START END
Assessment

21. Storyboard template
http://linoit.com

22. Review of the Storyboards
•Discussion of Storyboards
•As a result of the Storyboards, are any changes
needed to:
–your Course Features?
–your Course Maps?
–your LD Resource Audit?
–your Activity Profiles?

23. Task Swimlane: Mapping an activity at
the micro-level
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3421

24. Intro to E-tivity 6: Develop your e-tivities

25. And… off we go!
Image by audi-insperation on Flickr

26. Many thanks to the following
people, whose helping hands
may not always have been visible:
•The OULDI and Carpe Diem projects for all the resources
•Rebecca Galley for help with the planning of an earlier workshop, on which this one is based
•Prof. Grainne Conole for all her input
•Dr Ale Armellini for all his input
•Dr Ming Nie for the evaluation and support
•JISC and the HEA for the funding.
Image by audi-insperation on Flickr