🧶 How Andrew Barry created the curriculum for #ODCC1
@Bazzaruto takes us behind the scenes of creating the curriculum for On Deck Course Creators.
Biggest takeaways + video 👇🏼
🧱 Think in first principles: reflect, deconstruct, reconstruct
🚩 Start by defining pillars and high-level buckets of knowledge—these are milestones
🧠 Brain dump a list of topics under each pillar—this is ever-changing, so keep iterating
⏳ Define the steps on the learning journey—consider your constraints, especially time
🎭 Treat the learning journey as a story arc (e.g. following the Hero's Journey)
🪡 Pull topics into each step, adding more topics if necessary—also, some may repeat
☑️ Make sure to define learning outcomes + prompts to action for each topic/lesson
✍🏼 Jot down your ideas and thoughts for each lesson—use it to produce your content
📋 For each lesson, consider stories and examples, worksheets ideas, breakouts + more
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👩🏻💻 @wes_kao on making online courses more accessible
@rohitmal talks with @wes_kao about online courses. They actually talk about a lot more than making them accessible.
Biggest takeaways + video 👇🏼
📣 Learn sales, marketing, and copywriting—as a creator, it's your job to convince buyers
👨🏻💻 Build a community + environment for people to learn together by producing real work
🤘🏾 Be deliberate about community-building, e.g. attract "weird in the same way" people
Courses are complex systems with interdependent parts (levers) influencing one another.
@wes_kao presents the Course Mechanics Canvas, and 12 levers you can pull on to design and deliver a top-notch CBC unique to you!
Summary + article 👇🏼
Here are the 12 levers:
🕐 Length
🕑 Number of students
🕒 Price
🕓 Intensity
🕔 Project-driven
🕕 Group interaction
🕖 Coach involvement
🕗 Instructor involvement
🕘 Production value
🕙 Pre-recorded content
🕚 Application process
🕛 Cohort frequency
Some levers are highly interdependent and "move" together:
🙌🏽 Intensity, Project-driven, Group Interaction
💁🏼 Number of students, coach involvement, instructor involvement
💸 Length and price
💡 5 Insights From Taking A Live Cohort-Based Course
@benlcollins shares what he's learnt about cohort-based courses through his participation in Keystone Accelerator (by @BillyBroas), and five key takeaways that he plans to apply to his own course:
Summary + episode 👇🏼
🤘🏾 World-class content, community, feedback, accountability → transformative experience
🤝 New human connections and the diversity of the group are as valuable as the content
(cont.)
🙌🏼 Learning together is more fun, and we learn best when we're having fun
👌🏼 The experience itself + the tangential learnings are just as valuable as the core content
🤏🏾 When it comes to content, less is more—prioritise transformation over information
The Future of Education is Community: The Rise of Cohort-Based Courses
@fortelabs presents the 4 Waves of Online Education, from MOOCs to cohort-based courses:
A summary… 👇🏼
1️⃣ MOOCs: bringing traditional educational content online
2️⃣ Marketplaces: giving ordinary people the platform to earn money through teaching
3️⃣ Toolkits: giving instructors control over distribution + pricing + the student experience
4️⃣ Cohorts: creating transformations via live interactions + adapting content on the fly
🌐 Global, niche interest groups can gather to learn together, thanks to improved tech