Presentation on how to produce open learning materials.

1. Welcome How to develop open learning materials By Bart Cornille

4. Defining open learning Open learning is a state of mind; Open learning is a way of enabling adults to take responsibility for their own learning…

7. Writing Objectives Writing objectives is meant to help you plan your teaching. In writing objectives we are trying to indicate what successful learners should be able to do (or say) to demonstrate that they have learned. So it is better to avoid introducing objectives with words like those on the left below. Instead, begin an objective with a verb like those on the right below:

8. Demonstrate… Believe in… Give examples of… Learn the basics of… Suggest reasons why… Realize the significance of… Assess… Have information about… Apply… Believe… Compare… Be aware of… Show diagrammatically Acquire a feeling for… Summarize… Be interested in… Analyze… Appreciate… Distinguish between… Have a good grasp of… Pick out… Become acquainted with… Evaluate… Be familiar with… List… Really understand… Explain… Really know… Describe… Understand… State… Know… USE words like: AVOID words like:

9. Once you know your objectives for the manual as a whole, you will need to know how they relate to the objectives for individual chapters. Readers will be expected to achieve some objectives as a result of a particular lesson, others will be expected to get better and better at, chapter by chapter. So, objectives can be arrived at by asking: Which of the objectives will be fully attained during this lesson? And Which of the objectives (or which aspects of which) will readers improve their ability in during the lesson? Deciding on content

18. LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDITIONAL READINGS STUDY TIME AND ACTIVITIES REFLECTIVE/WRITTEN/READING ACTIVITIES

21. Some writers of self-instruction distinguish between what they call: SAQ (Self-assessment questions) Which may appear, perhaps several together, testing major objectives, at the end of perhaps an hour or so’s reading; and ITQs (In-text questions) This may be used at frequent intervals in the text between SAQs, generating the running dialogue between author and reader.