Mapping the Structure of Phoebe's Content

This structure is based around the components of a learning session, as identified in a number of JISC documents, as well as a number of lesson plans developed for the Learning Design Tools project. (See SourceDocuments)

TBD: Terminology:

• learning session vs. learning activity vs. unit of learning.
• Subdivision -- activity (but not if used above) vs. task

TBD: Form(s) of representation for this info, other than as hierarchical list similar to the one below, but expandable/contractible.

Guide to use of bullet points

• Component of plan -- can expand/contract to reveal sub-divisions, but not fields
  • Sub-division of component (if relevant) -- doesn't expand/contract to reveal fields(????)
    • "Field"

"Global" information about the learning session as a whole

• Title of session
  • Brief description of session(?)
• Author(s) of this plan
• Teaching staff to be involved (if other than the author, or additional to the author)
• Context within course/programme
  • Course/programme title
  • Year group
  • Module (if applicable)
  • No. of unit/session within module (if applicable)
• Timing
  • If F2F or blended F2F+Online
    • Term
    • Week
    • Date
    • Time
  • If online
    • Expected study time (in hours)

• Students
  • Expected number (approx.)

Information about each activity/sub-task within the learning session

Issues

1. There is a one-to-many relationship between global info and activity info, as each session may include more than one activity. However, do we want to consider a possible one-to-many relationship between an activity and global info -- i.e. where the same activity can crop up in different learning sessions? (Probably not, unless we were to store the info in a database, which isn't currently envisaged.)
2. How to represent branching where learners may do different activities depending on choice or differentiation?