Collaborative Lesson Development
Collaborative Lesson Development Training
Collaborative Lesson Development Training teaches essential skills and good practices for designing and developing a lesson as an open source project. The training will guide you through the design process and initial development of a new lesson, prepare you to work with the infrastructure we use to build accessible, open source lesson websites, and provide some advice and techniques for effective collaboration on the project.
About the training
Target audience
Collaborative Lesson Development Training is aimed at Carpentries community members who have an idea for a new lesson and want to begin developing it into an open source lesson website, in collaboration with others. The curriculum was developed with a focus on lessons for short-format training (e.g. two-day workshops), but most of the skills and principles taught are applicable to all curriculum design.
What will you learn?
The training teaches fundamental concepts, skills, and good practice in three key areas:
- Lesson design and development
- Collaboration
- Using The Carpentries lesson infrastructure
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- collaboratively develop and publish lessons using The Carpentries lesson infrastructure
- identify and characterise the target audience for a lesson
- define SMART learning objectives
- explain the pedagogical value of authentic tasks
- create exercises for formative assessment
- explain how considerations of cognitive load should influence - the pacing, length, and organisation of a lesson
- use best practices to configure and maintain accessible and - usable lesson repositories that are readily available for collaboration
- identify and correct accessibility issues in a lesson built on The Carpentries lesson infrastructure
- use feedback and reflection from teaching to update and improve lesson material
- review and provide constructive feedback on lessons