Digital Curriculum Design tools
Through the Discovery Phase of the Design Process of NorthStar, the team have identified a number of digital tools, toolkits and resources that provided examples of best practices in curriculum design tools. each tool includes key elements that may be useful in developing a Co-Created curriculum.
Learning Design Tools
- Learning Design Tool – https://www.ucl.ac.uk/learning-designer/
- ABC Learning Design
- Basic ABC digital design – https://flexiblelearning.auckland.ac.nz/abc/toolkit.html
- A tool kit to support development https://www.coursemapguide.com/
- https://educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/abc/
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Designing and planning your online course with Trello – https://medium.com/i3hs-hub/designing-and-planning-your-online-course-with-trello-ad0ce1637fad
Course Workload Tool
- Penn State – Hours of Instructional Activity (HIA) Estimator https://weblearning.psu.edu/resources/penn-state-online-resources/hia-estimator-app/
- https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/ CC license can download source code and embed based on the RICE version
- https://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2016/02/09/guest-post-jisc-ou-student-workload-tool/ – based loosely on the ABC’s
- Beer 2019 Calculator for online courses– an excel based calendar with a word document to assign numerical figures to common course activities.
Case Studies
- Dublin Institute of Technology Assessment Toolkit – https://www.dit.ie/teaching/assessment/cases/
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Gateway to Digital Assessment – https://www.tcd.ie/CAPSL/Gateway_to_Assessment/
- UCD IMPACT case studies – https://www.ucd.ie/research/portal/ucdimpactcasestudies/
Open University Planning tools
- Open University Programme/Module planning documents – https://mooc-book.eu/index/learn-more/resources/
- Activity planner – http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/learning-design/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/activity-planner-v4.pdf
- Open university 6 cards similar to ABC’s –
- http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/learning-design/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/activity-type-cards-August-2020.pdf
Reflective Tools
- Digital Ed Discovery Tool http://www.digitaled.ie/discovery-tool/
- EDIN Impact Analysis Tool -A reflective tool for planning and evaluating the impact of educational development activities https://www.edin.ie/?page_id=384
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Self-Assessment Checklist: Assessment Design to Promote Academic Integrity http://dcuh5p.com/ai-self-assessment-checklist/
Toolkit examples
- To Support the Process of Planning for Effective Use of Dialogue in Learning – http://arrow.dit.ie/itbj/vol3/iss2/5
- Making the connection between PO and Lo’s – https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-018-1289-9#Fig4
- UDL Curriculum Design Tool – https://everyones-in.tki.org.nz/
